Organizational and Program Histories

Organizational Program Histories are written as research publications exploring the history of national reconnaissance. The goal is to document the NRO's legacy and to provide a historical framework for policy and programmatic decisions.

• 4C-1000 -- The Untold Story of the NRO Headquarters Staff (1962 - 1990) (PDF 11 MB)
• Meet the Astronauts of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory video (filmed 21 June 2019)
• The 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the End of the A-12 OXCART video (filmed 22 June 2018)
• Bridgehead: Eastman Kodak Company's Covert Photoreconnaissance Film Processing Program
• The DORIAN Files Revealed: A Compendium of the NRO's Manned Orbiting Laboratory Documents (36.8 MB)
• Perry History
• Congress and the National Reconnaissance Office
• The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years: A Brief History, second edition
• GRAB and POPPY: America's Early ELINT Satellites
• A History of the Military Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite Program
• SAMOS to the Moon: The Clandestine Transfer of Reconnaissance Technology Between Government Agencies
• Spies in Space: Reflections on National Reconnaissance and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory
• NRO Almanac 2016, Second edition

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