Steve Blank

And Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Free
- John 8:32 (and the lobby of CIA Headquarters, Langley Virginia)

Secret History of Silicon Valley Video – on Youtube
Secret History of Silicon Valley Slides – on Slideshare

Sources I used for The Secret History of Silicon Valley.  Thanks to the authors of this wonderful material.  Special note; read everything Alfred Price has written for WWII and Electronic Warfare.  Steuart Leslie, Charles Lecuyer and Rebecca S. Lowen for Stanford and the Cold War.

World War II Sources – Books

• Scientists Against Time – James Baxter
• A Radar History of WWII – Louis Brown
• Confounding the Reich – Martin Bowman
• Confound and Destroy – Martin Streetly
• Echoes of War, the Story of H2S Radar – Sir Bernard Lovell
• Boffin: A Personal Story of the Early Days of Radar, Radio Astronomy and Quantum Optics – R. Hanbury Brown
• Radar Development to 1945 – Russell Burns
• The Invention that Changed the World – Robert Buderi
• Wizard War, British Scientific Intelligence – R.V. Jones
• History of Air Intercept Radar and British Nightfighter – Ian White
• The Luftwaffe Over Germany: Defense of the Reich – Donald Caldwell
• Battle Over The Reich: The Strategic Bomber Offensive Over Germany: Volume One, 1939-1943 – Alfred Price
• Battle Over the Reich: The Strategic Bomber Offensive against Germany Volume 2 Nov 1943-May 1945 – Alfred Price
• Japanese Radar and Related Weapons of World War II – Yasuzo Nakagawa
• Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare – Alfred Price
• Volume I: The History of US. Electronic Warfare to 1946 – Alfred Price

Cold War Sources — Books

• Volume II: The History of US. Electronic Warfare: Renaissance Years - Alfred Price
• Volume III: The History of US. Electronic Warfare: Rolling Thunder Through Allied Force, 1964 to 2000 - Alfred Price
• Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret NSA – James Bamford
• The Puzzle Palace: Inside the NSA – James Bamford
• Secrets of Signals Intelligence During the Cold War and Beyond – M. Aid, C. Wiebes
• Eternal Vigilance? 50 Years of the CIA- J. Jones, R. Jones, C. Andrew
• High-Cold-War-Strategic Air Reconnaissance and the Electronic Intelligence War - Robert Jackson
• Spy Flights of the Cold War – Paul Lashmar
• By Any Means Necessary: America’s Secret Air War in the Cold War – W. Burrows
• Shadow Flights: America’s Secret Airwar Against the Soviet Union: A Cold War History – C. Peebles
• The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology -Jeffery Richelson
• Spyplane The U-2 History – Norman Polmar
• Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites – Dwayne Day
• Corona: America’s First Satellite Program – Kevin Ruffner
• Corona Between the Sun and the Earth: The First NRO Reconnaissance Eye in Space – Robert McDonald
• Trust but Verify: Imagery Analysis in the Cold War – David Lindgren
• Spy Capitalism: Itek and the CIA – Jonathan Lewis
• America’s Space Sentinels: DSP Satellites and National Security – Jeffery Richelson
• Shades of Gray: National Security and the Evolution of Space Reconnaissance – L. Parker Temple
• Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance – Donald MacKenzie
• From Polaris to Trident – The Development of US Fleet Ballistic Missile Technology – Graham Spinardi
• When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the U.S. Navy – David Boslaugh
• A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon – Neal Sheehan
• Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile Program – David Stumpf
• The Kremlins’s Nuclear Sword: The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Forces, 1945-2000 – Steven Zaloga
• Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces – Pavel Podvig, Frank von Hippel
• The Eleven Days of Christmas: America’s Last Vietnam Battle – Marshall Michel
• Flying From the Black Hole – Robert Harder
• SA-2 (S-75) Surface to Air Missile Simulator
• The Archangel and the OXCART: the Lockheed A-12 – J. Remak, J. Ventolo
• From Rainbow to Gusto: Stealth and the Design of the Lockheed Blackbird – Paul Suhler
• Radar Handbook – Merrill I. Skolnik
• EW 101: a first course in electronic warfare – David Adamy
• First in Last Out: Stories by the Wild Weasels
• Threat Warning for Tactical Aircraft: A Technical History
• Beyond Expectations: Recollections of the Pioneers and Founders of National Reconnaissance

Silicon Valley Sources – Books

Terman/Shockley/Intel/National

• Fred Terman at Stanford – Stewart Gilmore
• IEEE Oral History – Fred Terman Associates
• Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley- Joel Shurkin
• The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce – Leslie Berlin
• Spinoff: A Personal History of the Industry That Changed The World – Charles Sporck

Silicon Valley History

• Electronics in the West: the First Fifty Years – Jane Morgan
• The Origins of the Electronics Industry on the Pacific Coast- Arthur Norberg
• Revolution in Miniature: The History and Impact of Semiconductor Electronics
• Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford – Rebecca S. Lowen
• From Whirlwind to MITRE: The R&D Story of the SAGE Air Defense Computer – Kent Redmond, Thomas Smith
• Understanding Silicon Valley – Martin Kenney
• How Silicon Valley Came to Be – Timothy Sturgeon
• The Inventor and the Pilot: Russell and Sigurd Varian -  Dorothy Varian
• The Tube Guys – Norman Pond
• The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford – Stuart W. Leslie
• Making Silicon Valley: Innovation & the Growth of High Tech -  Charles Lecuyer
• Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 – AnnaLee Saxenian
• The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy – AnnaLee Saxenian
• Bill and Dave:  How Hewlett and Packard Built the World’s Greatest Company

Venture Capital

• Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital – Spencer E. Ante
• Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories -Udayan Gupta
• Semiconductor Timeline to 1976: Semi and Don C. Hoefler

ELINT Sources – Web

• IMINT and Analysis

Engineering/ELINT in the CIA/NSA

• http://www.tbp.org/pages/Publications/Bent/Features/F99Poteat.pdf
• http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/
• http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st06.pdf
• http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st08.pdf
• http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB60/abm022.pdf
• https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/pdf/v11i2a05p.pdf
• https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/pdf/v12i2a02p.pdf
• https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/a-12/hiding-oxcart-in-plain-sight.html
• http://jya.com/nsa-elint.htm
• http://fas.org/irp/program/list.htm
• http://www.spyflight.co.uk/main.htm

ELINT Aircraft Losses

• http://www.rb-29.net/HTML/77ColdWarStory/08.01apndxC.htm
• http://www.history.navy.mil/avh-1910/APP34.PDF

Analyst Demos

• http://www.palantirtech.com/government/analysis-blog

Oral Histories

• Computer History Museum Oral Histories
• IEEE Oral Histories
• ACM Oral Histories

Photo and Movie Sources – Web

• B-24 Ferret ELINT equipment photos

WWII Radar History/Photos/Radar Order of Battle

• www.gyges.dk
• http://www.luftarchiv.de/
• http://www.vectorsite.net/ttwiz.html The Wizard War
• http://www.museumwaalsdorp.nl/en/german_radar.html
• http://www.baermann.biz/pauke/index.php?catid=9&blogid=1

Movie Clips

• 12 O’Clock High
• Memphis Belle
• Dr. Strangelove
• Easter Egg