Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
30 May 2023 Acquired Lockheed Martin
“I think what the CIA and the National Reconnaissance Office does is they write these stories, maybe quasi in real time so that there's documentation of all this stuff, and then they stamp it secret, and then it never gets out until it gets declassified.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 30 May 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Lockheed Martin
Transcript context
…Yeah, I downloaded it, and I have it over my computer. It's pretty crazy. It says secret. It has the classification, and then it struck through. It's literally the document that was prepared in secret and then declassified. I think what the CIA and the National Reconnaissance Office does is they write these stories, maybe quasi in real time so that there's documentation of all this stuff, and then they stamp it secret, and then it never gets out until it gets declassified. It's just amazing. But on the declassification website, which we'll link to in sources, you can see a bunch of the pictures that the Corona satellite took, including of the Pentagon. You can see something you know what it looks like, and you can see the level of fidelity that this 1959 satellite got of that.…
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