Update: former speaker on CNN

Phil Pressel who was a speaker at our club earlier this year speaking on the spy satellite says I just spoke to CNN and was told that the 8 part CNN series on spying called “Declassified” will begin Sunday, June 19 at 10 PM ET. On the west coast it will be at 7 PM and at 10 PM.  Most of the programs are about actual spies.  The program about the Hexagon Spy Satellite is scheduled to be the last of the 8 programs and will be on Sunday, September 4.  That is subject to change.  There will be breaks in the series due to the political conventions this summer.  There will be promos about the series on CNN.  I was privileged to be interviewed for the segment about the Hexagon Spy Satellite, along with Jim Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, Henry Plaster, the CIA program manager, several Air Force personnel and one of the Trieste undersea pilots. 

 

For those of us who worked on Hexagon we know how important the intelligence it provided was in keeping the peace during the cold war.