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Cold War’s best kept secret: Spy satellite that stayed hidden for 30 years
Throughout the Cold War’s iciest decades, the top-secret Parcae project, shrouded in secrecy for over 30 years, provided the ...
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A Spy Satellite You’ve Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War
In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem. The Soviet Navy was becoming a global maritime threat—and the ...