On Aug 26, 2011, at 17:38 , Stan Halpin wrote: > Interesting story. I learned about the film drop in my SI-TK in-brief, but > basically I just noted that images were acquired, film dropped and recovered > and developed. At that point I and colleagues came into the picture, working > on best techniques for training analysts to do effective interpretation. What > is truly fascinating to me is how much of our space program and spin-off > technologies were driven by what are ultimately unreasonable demands by > policy makers for certainty. > > One of my all-time-favorite reads was Perception, Deception, and Surprise > [http://www.amazon.com/Perception-Deception-Surprise-Case-Kippur/dp/B000QBA9U4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314405274&sr=8-1] > written by an Israeli intelligence officer after the Yom Kippur War. Brief > summary: stuff happens. You can't and won't know what/when it will happen. > Learn to live with it.
That's been my credo ever since. I've really only searched for such info on the intertube a couple of times since it even existed. That's when I found that there are hundreds of sites exchanging information that may or may not be real that I lived with for years. Now, with the plethora of commercial birds in the sky, there is competition to sell images to the highest bidders, as well as recovering many of the origional images from the NRO programs through the years via Freedom of Info means. The one that sticks out in my mind the brightest is called Talent-Keyhole.com, a unique consulting firm providing timely analysis to answer key military and intelligence questions. "We use overhead imagery from commercial aerial and satellite platforms and declassified imagery from the Cold War to provide comprehensive analysis of critical facilities." Their site refers you to three others, perhaps of dubious value, perhaps not. As Colonel Klink would say, "Veerryy Interestink!" Joseph McAllister [email protected] I couldn't remember most of what I know today if it weren't for others sharing their knowledge of my past on the Internet. Thank you… -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
