20 fevereiro 2003

ECO-TERROR
"Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage", by Philip Taubman
This book is the chronicle of these pioneers and their work, including the groundbreaking science and backbreaking failures that marked the swift passage of America’s aerial espionage from the lower atmosphere to the stratosphere to outer space during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. [...]
As the United States struggles today to overcome the new threats to its security, and to devise new methods of watching its enemies, it may find useful guideposts in the Eisenhower years. The ambition of Dwight Eisenhower’s espionage endeavors was exceedingly high -- to overcome a terrifying blindness that left the nation vulnerable to surprise attack and to defeat an acute fear of the unknown that threatened to disfigure American society. He succeeded.