#TDIH 1960: America’s Imaging Satellite Program #CORONA successfully captures 1st reconnaissance imagery from space:
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18 August 1960: all systems on CORONA Mission XIV operated successfully! CC
@NatReconOfc#HISTINTpic.twitter.com/1Fcdhjwe7M
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#CORONA returned more photographic coverage of Soviet Union in 1 mission than in all previous U-2 missions combined.pic.twitter.com/LDlCUAW3Sm
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In several months, CIA photointerpreters helped dispel the missile gap http://1.usa.gov/1MuCOTd pic.twitter.com/kak62oUPSf
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#CORONA & its successors made them the most important sources of intel on Soviet forces. -
#CORONA provided answers to pressing intel questions & profoundly altered course of Cold War; its 145th & final mission took place May 1972. - 1 more reply
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@CIA The 15 days, the length of Spin, the fights about mission placement, the war that happened inside the gov for it to be right!Mist Cova?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@CIA Becoming the grand side of how to keep the Leaders and Citizens safe for Ever! It's a shame how terrorism stops it from happening!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@CIA What about the speed of the Missions, the way they were lined up for issue, those basing life on the images for millions. What become!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@CIA Offer up your best defense. This is the end of the innocence.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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