SPACE ESPIONAGE PLANS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP63-00313A000600160051-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 51
• Content Type: NSPR

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be able to keep under ubservati{ a ~acr' s uaare
mile of the Earth's surface and trartsr rat \tnt r-
ican ground stations data ahntrt the location cal
Soviet tttfesile sites and any atact4ttaii ce-t1eentr$-
tion of troops or materiel
Specialists of the Benditi 1v.atitxa Co. con..
ecried primarily with mihtarv technology stress
that ,'if Salinas; travels it an altitude of about ~fxj
miles, it will be pncsihle with the available
lenses and TV equipment to make -i'totoorapras
equivalent to what can be fvett from an altrta ?s"
of 100 feed'. itch photograi,tt made at ttiat alts. -
tude, in the opinion of the st>t? iali~ts, will cui,er
an area of several- square mites. on -meh ptc-
tures it will be'possible to find .and identify all
communications. airfields, n..ty~at in4tatlatioras,
.etc. Much larger areas, th( terrralistti thinlt,
could be photographed f:ern a st'f^ Cite ffyin at
an altitude of fr