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- Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. [e]
- Hughes Aircraft Company [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology [r]: A private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. [e]
Subtopics
- Reconnaissance satellite [r]: A satellite which provides images of the Earth and monitors electronic emissions of terrestrial and airborne communications and radar systems. [e]
- Electronic intelligence [r]: Collection and analysis of electronic signals not intended to be intelligible to humans, such as radar or navigational aids [e]
- Imagery intelligence [r]: the practice of taking and interpreting visible and infrared light photographs and video, radar imagery, and other ways to form pictures of subjects of interest [e]
- U-2 Dragon Lady [r]: A high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft that remains a key U.S. intelligence collection platform. [e]
- Cuban Missile Crisis [r]: Probably the closest the U.S. and Soviet Union came to nuclear war, a confrontation, in October 1962, when Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba, and eventually removed through a naval show of force and diplomatic maneuvering [e]
- SR-71 Blackbird [r]: An advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed YF-12A and A-12 aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works. [e]
- CORONA (satellite) [r]: Originally a tightly classified U.S. program, the world's first operational photo-reconnaissance satellite [e]
- KH-8 GAMBIT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- KH-9 HEXAGON [r]: The last U.S. imagery intelligence satellite that returned physical capsules of film rather than digitally transmitting its information; its resolution is believed comparable to the best of today's digital transmission satellite [e]
- KH-11 KENNAN [r]: US imagery intelligence satellite of the generation immediately before the most current; transmits digitized pictures in real time; some infrared and signals intelligence capability [e]
- U-2 Dragon Lady [r]: A high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft that remains a key U.S. intelligence collection platform. [e]
- Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident [r]: Commission appointed by President Ronald Reagan whose mission was to investigate the cause of the Challenger disaster and recommend means to avoid future disasters. [e]