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U-2 photography of Tyuratam
Missile Testing Range
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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.⁸³
While PID was still analyzing the SOFT TOUCH photography, the Soviet Union announced the successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from Baykonyr (Tyuratam). On 26 August 1957, the Soviet news agency TASS stated that a “super-long-range multistage intercontinental ballistic rocket” had been successfully tested, adding “it is now possible to send missiles to any
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⁸³ Lundahl and Brugioni interview (TS Codeword).
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