Ruffner Kevin Editor (6 results)

Trade paperback. Condition: good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 28 cm. xvi, 360, [2] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Appendix. Dr. Ruffner is a member of the CIA History Staff. These newly declassified documents and imagery from the CORONA satellite program are published as the fourth volume in the CIA Cold War Records Series. The Corona program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force. The Corona satellites were used for photographic surveillance of the Soviet Union (USSR), the People's Republic of China, and other areas beginning in June 1959 and ending in May 1972. The name of this program is sometimes seen as "CORONA", but its actual name "Corona" was a codeword, not an acronym. Corona started under the name "Discoverer" as part of the WS-117L satellite reconnaissance and protection program of the US Air Force in 1956. The WS-117L was based on recommendations and designs from the RAND Corporation. The United States Air Force credits the Onizuka Air Force Station as being the "birthplace of the Corona program." In May 1958, the Department of Defense directed the transfer of the WS-117L program to Advanced Research Projects Agency. In FY1958, WS-117L was funded by the AF at a level of US$108.2 million (inflation adjusted US$0.92 billion in 2018). For Discoverer, the Air Force and ARPA spent a combined sum of US$132.3 million in FY1959 (inflation adjusted US$1.11 billion in 2018) and US$101.2 million in FY1960 (inflation adjusted US$0.84 billion in 2018). The Corona project was pushed forward rapidly following the shooting down of a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union in May 1960.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - Wraps. First Edition. 364pp/illus, The documents and imagery in this volume--on the nation's first photo reconnaissance satellite system--were reviewed and declassified with unusual dispatch by a special working group of declassification officers from the National Reconnaissance Office. Clean.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - Wraps. First Edition. 364pp/illus, The documents and imagery in this volume--on the nation's first photo reconnaissance satellite system--were reviewed and declassified with unusual dispatch by a special working group of declassification officers from the National Reconnaissance Office. Clean.

paperback. Condition: Good. softcover book light wear to cover and book edges, has some light reader wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Late 1950s/Early 1960s first US Spy satellite NASA/CIA program. Spiralbound. Reprint of actual photocopies of actual original CIA produced documents. Includes notations and original redactions probably done at 1995 publication. Lots on Cuba and Russia overflights and images. 360pp.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!