Inside the CIA’s Decades-Long Climate “Spy” Campaign - 3 Quarks Daily

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Inside the CIA’s Decades-Long Climate “Spy” Campaign - 3 Quarks Daily

by Rachel Santarsiero For decades, the Central Intelligence Agency—an organization best known for its espionage and secret missions—has been spying on climate change. Well, maybe not spying. Not at first, at least. In the 1960s and 1970s, the CIA conducted a top-secret US program using satellite imagery to capture images of Soviet military installations. The program, codenamed CORONA, dramatically improved U.S. knowledge of Soviet and other nati…