Spy Photos
1. Poland, 1944
Disturbing as they are, aerial images like this one of the Nazi
death camp at Auschwitz had no effect on the camp's operations after
they were taken, because the photos were collected incidentally as
part of bomb-strike imagery of the nearby IG Farben chemical plant.
CIA photo interpreters discovered the imagery decades later. Aerial
photos like this one were the precursors to far more sophisticated
satellite imagery to come.