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The CIA official Leslie Dirks decided to use relay satellites for future reconnaissance satellites instead of onboard data storage in 1968.
By August 1979, the CIA confirmed a new launch pad was being built for a new rocket at Baikonur.
In 1978, the CIA detected new facility construction at Baikonur.
The Zhukovsky airbase, known as the Flight Research Institute in Russia, was referred to as Ramenskoye by the CIA.
In 1981, the CIA observed new prototype aircraft such as the Su-25 Frogfoot, MiG-29 Fulcrum, and Tu-160 bomber.
By 1980, the CIA concluded the Soviet Union was building a new heavy-lift launch vehicle and a space shuttle to rival NASA's program.
The antennas at Soviet-era KGB sites include diameters of 25, 12, and 7 meters according to a declassified 1983 CIA report.
A recently declassified memo indicates that the CIA planned and executed intelligence exploitation during Titov's visit to the United States.
The CIA memo expressed appreciation for NASA's cooperation during Major Gherman Titov’s visit.
NASA Administrator James Webb offered cooperation to the CIA when he took office in early 1961.
A December 1980 CIA report stated that the Kirov had conducted sea trials earlier that year and was beginning weapons tests.
The NRO and CIA previously investigated using an SR-71 aircraft as a satellite launcher in 1962 but abandoned the concept.
The CIA contracted Perkin-Elmer to produce a telescope capable of detecting and analyzing lasers fired from ground facilities in Sary Shagan.
The CIA installed a new dome atop a mountain next to a field of equipment used to gather information from inside the Soviet Union before the Shah of Iran fell in 1978.
EGGSHELL was the initial code name for the CIA's site in Iran, established in the late 1950s at the Shah's hunting palace outside Behshahr.
The mountaintop facility was known as TACKSMAN and was used by the CIA to monitor Soviet missile launches from the Baikonur missile and rocket launch facility in Kazakhstan.
The CIA expanded EGGSHELL to a second location to collect telemetry from the Baikonur launch facility.
The Air Force aimed for Program 437 to intercept Soviet fractional or multi-orbit bombardment systems that the CIA believed the Soviet Union was developing.
The book includes testimonials from current and retired generals and admirals from the US and allied militaries, including former CIA director David Petraeus.
The Groom Lake facility was originally a CIA-led site before being handed over to the Air Force in the 1970s.