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  Philips, David Atlee

  phone companies

  Pied Piper satellite reconnaissance system

  Pike, John

  Pike hearings

  Pine, David

  Plant 42

  plausible deniability

  Poland black site

  Posada Carilles, Luis

  Powell, Colin

  Powers, Francis Gary

  Pred, Allan

  Premier Executive Transport Services

  prisons and prisoners

  Abu Ghraib

  California prisons

  and CIA

  Dark Prison

  Denbeaux’s report on

  “ghost” prisoners

  and legality issues

  and McCain Amendment

  private prisons

  Pul-e-Charki prison

  rendition program

  Salt Pit prison

  See also Guantánamo Bay; torture and violence

  Pro, Philip

  “Project Harvey” competition

  public archives

  Pul-e-Charki prison

  Qanooni, Yunus

  QUARTZ program

  QUASAR constellation

  QUEENS HUNTER

  Rabb, Maxwell

  Radio Communication Act of 1912

  Ramos, Felix

  Rapid Air Trans

  Raven pilots

  Reagan administration

  and black budget

  and Casey

  and Central American wars

  and Iran-Contra Affair

  and Iranian hostage crisis

  and military buildup

  and satellite data

  reconnaissance missions . See also satellites

  Red Cross (International)

  Red Flag exercises

  rendition program

  RESUMINT (resume intelligence)

  Reynolds, Bob

  Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECO)

  Rhodes, Richard

  Rhyne, Jim

  RICE BOWL

  Rich, Ben

  Richelson, Jeffrey

  Rockefeller, John D.

  Rockefeller Commission

  Rockwell

  Rodriguez, Felix

  Roman, Agustin M.

  Romania black site

  Rommel, Erwin

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Rosenfeld, Leon

  Royal Observatory of Edinburgh

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Russia

  Sager, Dennis F.

  Saidi, Laid

  Salt Pit doctrine

  Salt Pit prison

  Sandinistas

  Sarver, Richard

  satellites

  amateur tracking of (see also Molczan, Ted)

  CORONA program

  decoy satellites

  8X program

  geosynchronous satellites

  imaging satellites

  military communication satellites

  of the National Reconnaissance Office

  Naval Ocean Surveillance Satellites

  reliance on

  satellite images

  secrecy in

  Sputnik

  stealth satellites

  See also specific satellites

  Sayyaf, Abdul Rasul

  Schakowsky, Jan

  Schlesinger, James

  Schroen, Gary

  science

  Science Applications International Corporation

  SEASPRAY

  Secord, Richard

  secrecy. See state secrets

  security clearances

  Select Committee to Study Govern mental

  Operations with Respect

  to Intelligence Activities

  (Church Committee),

  Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

  Shackley, Ted

  Shaw, Reuben Cole

  Shenandoah Aerolease

  Shoshone

  Siddiqullah, Maulawi

  Sierra Nevada

  6513th Flight Test Squadron (Red Hats)

  Smith, George

  Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

  SNOWBIRD

  social engineering

  SOFLAM (Special Operations Forces laser marker)

  solar radiation pressure

  Somoza, Anastasio

  Soviet Union

  Space Track database

  spatiality of the black world

  Special Forces

  Special Operations Command (SOCOM)

  Special Operations Division of the Army

  Special Projects Flight Test Squadron

  Sputnik

  state secrets

  as barriers to history

  and El-Masri v. Tenet

  as executive power

  and Kasza v. Browner

  and United States v. Reynolds

  and wiretapping of NSA

  “A Stealth Satellite Sourcebook” (Thompson)

  stealth technologies

  Stevenson, Adlai

  Stimson, Henry L.

  Stocker, Reto

  stroboscopic photography

  Sturgis, Frank

  Swan Island

  Symington, Stuart

  Syria

  Szilard, Leo

  TACIT BLUE aircraft

  TALENT KEYHOLE

  Taliban

  Task Force Dagger

  Task Force

  Task Force Saber

  Teller, Edward

  Tenet, George

  Tepper Aviation

  terror suspects. See also war on terror

  Terror Town

  Thailand black site

  Thatcher administration

  Thielmann, Greg

  30th Space Wing

  Thomas, Dick

  Thompson, A. C.

  Thompson, Allen

  TIARA (Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities)

  Tichenor, Terry

  Tien, Lee

  Tikaboo Peak

  Titan rockets

  Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range (TPECR)

  Tonopah Test Range

  torture and violence

  and CIA

  sanctioning of

  “torture memos”

  “torture taxis”

  transparency in government

  Treaty of Ruby Valley

  Triple Canopy

  Trlica, Lee

  Truman administration

  TRUMPET/ADVANCED JUMPSEAT satellites

  Turley, Jonathan

  Twain, Mark

  Unified Command Plan

  Uniform Code of Military Justice

  United Launch Alliance

  United Nations

  U.S. Bureau of Land management

  U.S. Congress

  and the black budget

  and Central American wars

  and CIA

  and covert operations

  and National Security Act

  and Southeast Asia conflict

  and war on terror

  U.S. Constitution

  U.S. Department of Defense

  budget for

  and Central American wars

  establishment of

  and Guantánamo Bay

  and Idema

  intelligence of

  and Space Track

  U.S. Department of Energy

  U.S. Department of Justice

  and Kasza v. Browner

  and rendition program

  and state secrets privilege

  and war on terror

  and wiretapping of NSA

  U.S. Department of War

  U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

  U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

  acknowledgement of

  budget for

  contractors working for

  establishment of

  headquarters

  and QUARTZ program

  role of

  and satellites

  U.S. Na
tional Security Agency (NSA)

  headquarters of

  origins of

  and satellites

  and surveillance of Americans

  U.S. Space Command

  U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)

  U.S. Supreme CourtSee also specific cases

  US v. Nixon

  United States v. Reynolds

  and democracy

  original case

  as precedent

  review of decision

  USA 144deb

  USA 193

  U-2 program

  Vandenberg Air Force Base

  Vanderhorst, Dan

  Vico, Giambattista

  Vietnam

  Vinson, Fred M.

  Walker, David

  The Wall Street Journal

  Walsh, Lawrence

  Waltz, Carl E.

  war on terror

  Boykin’s comments on

  and Central American wars

  and CIA

  and counterterrorism

  and Geneva Conventions

  invasion of Afghanistan

  leadership of

  and rendition program

  and state secrets privilege

  and surveillance programs

  and “torture taxis”

  See also prisons and prisoners

  War Powers Resolution

  Warner, John

  Washington, George

  The Washington Post

  Watergate

  WD

  Weber, Max

  Weisskopf, Victor

  Western Shoshone Defense Project

  Wheeler, George Montague

  Wheeler, John

  Wigner, Eugene

  Wilson, Charles

  wiretapping

  Woolsey, James

  Yardley, Herbert

  Yeager, Chuck

  YELLOW FRUIT

  YF-113G aircraft prototype

  YF-24 aircraft prototype

  Yoo, John

  Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer

  Your Solutions

  Yousef, Ramzi

  Yowell, Raymond

  Zelaya, Amilcar

  Zubaida, Abu