Click to open image viewer. NASM-9A14039-020B: "A P-38 with the invasion markings." Lockheed F-5 Lightning reconnaissance aircraft with D-Day invasion stripes in flight; Normandy, France, June 1944.

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Selected abbreviations and acronyms -- Legend for maps reproduced from West Point Atlas -- pt. 1. Aerial reconnaissance and photographic interpretation during ...

Dino Brugioni probably knows more about analyzing spy photographs than perhaps anyone alive. One of the founding officers of the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC), which got its ...

The Lockheed U-2 ushered in a new age of spying and new requirements for photo interpretation. Denny Lombard/Lockheed Martin In the early 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency and Lockheed were ...

For the past few weeks in this space, we’ve been hanging around the Steuart Building at Fifth and K streets NW, the top floors of which were home to the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation ...