The CIA knows a lot about other nations' space programs. You can too with its new 'World Factbook' update

The CIA Is Funding a Mission to Reincarnate the Dodo Bird

Joseph V. Charyk, Ukrainian who became the founder of the geosynchronous communications satellite industry and consolidated CIA, US Air Force and Navy space programs into the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

CIA Financial Support for Earth Satellite Project (1955-1957), interesting tidbit of history from a declassified Sputnik collection