Excavating for America's Secret Knowledge of the Soviet Space Program

摘要

There is, of course, a lot of information accessible with the Internet, but the ease with which it provides facts on what seems to be just about everything is deceptive. Depth on the Web is hit-and-miss, and there are lots of valuable and intriguing data and documents that never get digitized and distributed. Classified material on space research and technology is not only not retrievable by laptop, it's not necessarily available at all. In the United States, there is a process for declassifying information, but it takes patience and endurance. Even mastery of the tools of archival excavation doesn't guarantee success. Treasures may be revealed, but understanding what they mean requires the disposition and talent of a detective. There are always blanks that must be filled with the help of logic and memory.