On this week in 1958, President Eisenhower wrote to Congress requesting supplemental appropriations for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency. One month later, the Secretary of Defense issued a directive establishing the new agency. https://youtu.be/jRz6mY9HZy0 #TBT
“Soviets could launch a satellite this month, this week, or even today” said in a open meeting on October 4th, 1957, the Deputy Director of the CIA, Herbert Scoville. This happened just a few hours before the actual launch of the Sputnik satellite.
