#Reconnaissance

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Organizations (1)

National Reconnaissance Office Joint Defense Department and CIA agency for reconnaissance satellites, founded by memorandum in September 1961, whose existence stayed classified until 1992 and whose director resigned over 3.7 billion dollars in unspent funds.

Concepts (1)

U-2 Spy Plane The U-2 is a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft jointly developed by the CIA and Air Force under Lockheed cover, operational from 1956, whose overflight missions gathered critical intelligence on Soviet nuclear facilities and the Dimona reactor before a U-2 was shot down over the USSR in May 1960.