Jeffrey T. Richelson
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Weather or Not
Strategists have always known that the ability to predict the weather may mean winning—or losing—the b
Eavesdroppers in Disguise
Supersecret 7500-series satellites for years soaked up Soviet communications, while most assumed they
Spying on the MiGs
Everything from spy satellites to future four-stars crawling through mud gathered intel on the superse
Going Nowhere Fast
Congress and the Air Force spent a decade wrestling over the final fate of the legendary SR-71 Blackbi
Ups and Downs of Space Radars
The Air Force and NRO have been hacking at this project for nearly 50 years now.
A “Rifle” in Space
USAF’s KH-7 spy satellite system constituted a major advance in overhead intelligence collection.
When Secrets Crash
From the U-2 to the F-117A, it's a dicey issue deciding what to say and do when classified airplanes g
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