Corona: America's First Satellite Program
      by CIA Cold War Records, Kevin Conley Ruffner (Editor)

CIA Holds Landmark Symposium on CORONA

The CIA assembled many of the original CORONA program participants for the occasion, and released several hundred pages of previously classified documents and numerous spy satellite photos. For once, the CIA had a good story to tell and told it well.

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From Amazon Customer Reviews:

This volume began as a set of declassified and redacted documents ('redacted" meaning words and text still classified were blotted out) that was prepared by the CIA History Staff for distribution to participants in the November, 1995 symposium in which the CORONA reconnaissance satellite program (1958-72) was offcially declassified.

The "story" of CORONA has now been told in three subsequently published books-- if you get to this review you probably are aware of the other books-- but this volume, because it presents declassified materials themselves, has much value. Highlights include CIA historian Kenneth Greer's 1973 short history of the CORONA program, originally published as "TOP SECRET", and a fascinating report on the geological applications of CORONA photography, originally commissioned by the CIA from [name deleted} in 1971. The latter is critical, particularly becuase so much of contemporary earth science applications of remote sensing descended directly from CORONA and its allied reconnaissance systems, almost all of which remain classified at present (February, 2000).

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