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The CIA took spy photos of almost every part of Hungary in the 1960s – now you can check them out for free!
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This is the most special content one can check for free on Mapire, Arcanum’s mapping service. The CIA took photos of almost every part of Hungary in the 1960s. In 2016, the Interspect Research Group put together those photos and formed a map, which is now available to everybody for free.
The map was put together from several hundreds of panorama photos taken from space, thanks to the work of a dozen people for over a month, Index reported. The world did not know about the existence of such photos until their classification was lifted in 1995. This is, of course, understandable since in the 1960s, Hungary was a part of the Communist block led by the Soviet Union, the main antagonist of the USA and its allies.
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The first satellite intelligence collection program in the USA was the Corona, run under the pseudonym Discoverer. This was followed by Argon, Lanyard, Gambit, and the Hexagon from 1959 to 1972, and the results provided the United States with many advantages in the Cold War. Interestingly, Corona satellites were the first ones in the world gathering information from space, and one of them was
the first human-made object that was able to come back from space safely.