James Bond has nothing on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) National Photographic Interpretation Center (a NGA predecessor organization) imagery analysts who 55 years ago discovered a stash of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
Photographs taken by United States Air Force U-2 'spy planes' spurred 13 days of tense relations between the world’s largest superpowers called the Cuban Missile Crisis. The analysis of this imagery was a critical milestone in the evolution of geospatial intelligence and played a vital role in shaping foreign policy decision making.
Learn more in our latest Mapping Moments about how imagery analysis during the Cuban Missile Crisis affected policy makers and ultimately averted war!
| Date Taken: | 10.01.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 12.31.2018 12:06 |
| Category: | Series |
| Video ID: | 652782 |
| VIRIN: | 181231-A-DO505-001 |
| Filename: | DOD_106342719 |
| Length: | 00:02:04 |
| Location: | VIRGINIA, US |
| Downloads: | 51 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 51 |
This work, Mapping Moments: Cuban Missile Crisis, by LTJG Victoria Piccoli, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
