Kh-11 spy satellite manual

 · Though satellites are often presumed to be small devices floating around in space, the KH’s are actually extremely large vehicles. They’re approximately the size of Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. TIL in , William Kampiles stole a top-secret KH spy satellite manual from the CIA which he sold to the Russians for $ He then told the CIA for who he worked what he had done in the hopes that they would hire him as a double agent. They didn't and he . Since the Soviets obtained the manual on the KH11 photographic satellite, sources said, they have been moving some weaponry out of the range of its cameras when it passes over certain points. Many intelligence specialists believe these concealment efforts are a direct result of discovering through the manual what the KH11 could do, although U.S. officials stressed they .

Cold War - Stole a top-secret American KH spy satellite manual and sold it to the Soviets. William Peter Kampiles (born Decem) is a former United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee during the Cold War known for selling a top secret KH spy satellite manual in The KH KENNEN (later renamed CRYSTAL, then Evolved Enhanced CRYSTAL System, and codenamed 82 and Key Hole: 82) is a type of reconnaissance satellite first launched by the American National Reconnaissance Office in December Manufactured by Lockheed in Sunnyvale, California, the KH was the first American spy satellite to use electro-optical digital imaging, and so offer real. The most famous Keyhole satellite type is the KH, the primary U.S. orbital imaging platform from to (when it was succeeded by the KH, still in service today). The KH finally achieved the ambition of SAMOS's designers: to return film-quality images from orbit electronically, without bucket-dropping.

Since the Soviets obtained the manual on the KH11 photographic satellite, sources said, they have been moving some weaponry out of the range of its cameras when it passes over certain points. Though satellites are often presumed to be small devices floating around in space, the KH’s are actually extremely large vehicles. They’re approximately the size of the Hubble Space. The KH was still a top secret program and the fact its manual had been sold to the Soviets did not affect the government’s opinion that we should still keep it secret, even though other media had begun to mention it. Their position was that it “may not have” been made widely available in Soviet military and intelligence circles.