The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974

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Chapter 3
U-2 photography of 1"yuratam
Missile Testing RangEi
was the name Brugioni gave the missile base. Official Soviet releases
concerning this base have always referred to it as Baykonur, but the
community of Baykonyr is actually more than 200 miles north of
Tyuratam.
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While PID was still analyzing the SOFT TOUCH photography,
the Soviet Union announced the successful launch of an interconti­
nental ballistic missile (ICBM) from Baykonyr (Tyuratam). On 26
August l 957, the Soviet news agency TASS stated that a "su­
per-long-range multistage intercontinental ballistic rocket" had been
successfully tested, adding "it is now possible to send missiles to any
"' Lundahl and Brugioni intcrv i<!w (TS Codeword).
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