{"id":5529,"date":"2018-02-15T06:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T06:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=5529"},"modified":"2018-02-15T06:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T06:22:15","slug":"national-reconnaissance-office-brief-history-creation-evolution-april-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/national-reconnaissance-office-brief-history-creation-evolution-april-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Reconnaissance Office: A Brief History of its Creation and Evolution, April 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>According to the document:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Almost forty years ago, United States leaders created a hybrid National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to meet the unusual intelligence demands of the nuclear age and the Cold War. The chain of events began when President Dwight D. Eisenhower and a few confidants undertook national and international initiatives between 1953 and 1961 intended to help preclude a surprise nuclear attack.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong> Among them, they\u00a0approved for development remarkable overhead technical systems that could collect reliable intelligence about the military equipage and disposition of Soviet forces; in the process they opened the Soviet Union to American\u00a0 scrutiny. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>During this period they also established the national policy and organizations needed to guide and execute a newly-emergent enterprise: astronautics.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/nro\/F15-0025.pdf\">The National Reconnaissance Office: A Brief History of its Creation and Evolution, April 1999<\/a> [4 Pages, 0.8MB]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/nro\/F15-0025.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background According to the document: Almost forty years ago, United States leaders created a hybrid National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to meet the unusual intelligence demands of the nuclear age and the Cold War. The chain of events began when President Dwight D. Eisenhower and a few confidants undertook national and international initiatives between 1953 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,37],"tags":[252,251,514],"class_list":{"0":"post-5529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-intelligence","8":"category-spy-satellites-and-the-nro","9":"tag-national-reconnaissance-office","10":"tag-nro","11":"tag-spy-satellites"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-02-14_22-21-39.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}