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NRO Officially Declassifies JUMPSEAT First Gen Signals Intelligence Satellites
Launched between 1971 and 1987 primarily to collect intelligence data on foreign weapon testing, the last satellites in the JUMPSEAT family were withdrawn from service in 2006. A memorandum dated Dec.
Launched between March 1971 and February 1987, those satellite missions, nicknamed “JUMPSEAT,” were declassified by the ...
The name Jumpseat was first revealed in a 1986 book by the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the Soviet Union’s 1983 ...
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US declassifies secret 1970s spy satellites that tracked Soviet threats for decades
The US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has just declassified a pioneering spy satellite program ...
The National Reconnaissance Office just revealed the existence of its "JUMPSEAT" line of spy satellites, eight of which ...
The U.S. government revealed details of a secret satellite program it used to spy on the Soviet Union at the height of ...
After spying on the electronic signals of adversaries for decades, the NRO's enigmatic Jumpseat spy satellite has emerged from the darkness.
When you think of “secret” agencies, you probably think of the CIA, the NSA, the KGB, or MI-5. But the real secret agencies are the ones you hardly ever hear of. One of those is the National ...
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