By Ashley Hayes
Corona, a secretive CIA satellite surveillance/spying program launched in 1959. DroneScapes provides this summary on youtube:
The Corona[1] program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force. The CORONA satellites were used for photographic surveillance of the Soviet Union (USSR), China, and other areas beginning in June 1959 and ending in May 1972.
History
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite. Officially, Sputnik was launched to correspond with the International Geophysical Year, a solar period that the International Council of Scientific Unions declared would be ideal for the launching of artificial satellites to study Earth and the solar system. However, the launch led to public concern about the perceived technological gap between the West and the Soviet Union.[2] The unanticipated success of the mission precipitated the Sputnik Crisis, and prompted President Dwight D. Eisenhower to authorize the Corona program, a top priority reconnaissance program managed jointly by the Air Force and the CIA. Satellites were developed to photograph denied areas from space, provide information about Soviet missile capability and replace risky U-2 reconnaissance flights over Soviet territory.[3]
Overview
Lockheed’s covert “advanced projects” facility at Hiller Aircraft in Menlo Park, California
CORONA image of The Pentagon, 25 September 1967
CORONA started under the name “Discoverer” as part of the WS-117L satellite reconnaissance and protection program of the U.S. Air Force in 1956. The WS-117L was based on recommendations and designs from the RAND Corporation.[4] The primary goal of the program was to develop a film-return photographic satellite to replace the U-2 spyplane in surveilling the Sino-Soviet Bloc, determining the disposition and speed of production of Soviet missiles and long-range bombers assets. The CORONA program was also used to produce maps and charts for the Department of Defense and other U.S. government mapping programs.[5]
The CORONA project was pushed forward rapidly following the shooting down of a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union on 1 May 1960.[6]
CORONA ultimately encompassed eight separate but overlapping series of satellites (dubbed “Keyhole” or KH[7]), launched from 1959 to 1972.[8]: 231 CORONA was complemented and ultimately succeeded by the higher resolution KH-7 Gambit and KH-8 Gambit 3 series of satellites.[9]
An alternative concurrent program to the CORONA program was SAMOS. That program included several types of satellite which used a different photographic method. This involved capturing an image on photographic film, developing the film aboard the satellite and then scanning the image electronically. The image was then transmitted via telemetry to ground stations. The Samos E-1 and Samos E-2 satellite programs used this system, but they were not able to take very many pictures and then relay them to the ground stations each day. Two later versions of the Samos program, such as the E-5 and the E-6, used the bucket-return approach pioneered with CORONA, but neither of the latter Samos series were successful.[10]
Spacecraft
The CORONA satellites were designated KH-1, KH-2, KH-3, KH-4, KH-4A and KH-4B. KH stood for “Key Hole” or “Keyhole” (Code number 1010),[7] with the name being an analogy to the act of spying into a person’s room by peering through their door’s keyhole. The incrementing number indicated changes in the surveillance instrumentation, such as the change from single-panoramic to double-panoramic cameras. The “KH” naming system was first used in 1962 with KH-4, the earlier numbers being applied.
Here is a link to the declassified film about this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utQFm8IFV9M
The CIA’s Keyhole was later named Google Earth, as Whitney Webb has long reported. And she points to Keyhole as the origin point of the modern mass-surveillance and geospatial tracking architecture we use today.
Keyhole/CIA developed the “EarthViewer 3D” program, which allowed users to transition from outer-space to street-level allowing the CIA (and their affiliates at fusion centers, and elsewhere) to track/stalk anyone they choose, anywhere, anytime. (And to see a bit of CIA propaganda, check out their own page, at https://www.iqt.org/library/in-q-tel-announces-strategic-investment-in-keyhole where they are announcing — to an ignorant public they want to keep ignorant — they are investing a company that is owned by them!)
An additional reconnaissance-satellites program, HEXAGON, launched in 1966. Readers (and concerned Americans) can learn about it here: https://planet4589.org/space/docs/nro/histories/1.pdf.
If you’ve been a longtime reader of this site, you already know about the persistent surveillance (and harassment) of citizens by secretive, unaccountable fusion centers (ICE is one of the agencies operating from these centers, in addition to the FBI, CIA, NSA, DHS, sheriffs, cops, private citizens, et al.) Through their Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Defense, these operatives have access to ALL DOD weaponry, surveillance technology, etc.
As a way to get further funding to target, stalk, collect data from, and harass innocent citizens, Real Time Crime Centers were established a few years ago. They’re, essentially, fusion centers with a different name and they are utilizing citizen-spying program known as Hexagon AB digital public safety ecosystem, based on the original Hexagon surveillance program.
“Public safety” and “security” (and “national security”) are, as those awake understand, merely propaganda code names for programs that allow governmental agencies (and their private contractors) to track your every move, breath, thought,etc., collect the data and store it in a data center where they can retrieve it, manipulate it, and use it against you, if, and when, they choose.
As these historical documents prove, surveillance of Americans is not new. It’s just (much) more invasive now. And with the addition of AI and nanotechnology, it is invasive (and dangerous) in ways far too few American understand.
Stay informed and share what you know.
Additional sources:
https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/ForAll/062221/F-2021-00010_C05132402.pdf
Ashley Hayes is an investigative journalist documenting invisible crimes against humanity being perpetrated via mass propaganda, PsyOps, psychological torture, directed-energy, mass surveillance, remote neural weaponry, AI and nanotechnology by the secretive fusion centers/ private police and their leaders within the Military/Industrial/Intelligence/Law Enforcement/ Media/Pharmaceutical/Evangelical Complex in furtherance of their stated goal of a One World Government/One World Religion over a depopulated, enslaved America, as well the pandemic of child rape and child sex trafficking.
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