The Moby Dick Project Reconnaissance balloons over Russia by Peebles. Curtis,

Hard back book with pictorial dust jacket, 250 pages, illustrated with B/W plates, 8 chapters and notes.

The first complete story of the US programme to photograph the Soviet Union with camera-carrying balloons during the Cold War.

Born out of the desperate need for intelligence on Soviet military and industrial capabilities following the outbreak of the Korean war, the Moby Dick project pioneered  deep reconnaissance of ‘denied areas’.