Declassified CIA Cartography Maps from the 1980s

Aboutplants

I would love to see other countries classified maps of US cities.

BoxOfRain

Map Men did a great video on the reverse of this, classified Soviet-made maps of Britain which were all labelled in Polish! They were in some cases more accurate than the British OS maps of the era which did not print some features around military bases, but they did make mistakes too. I thought it was quite interesting, I'm too young to remember the Cold War but it's always described to me in terms of nuclear warfare and mutually assured destruction. The quality of the Soviet maps suggests the mentality of a conquering adversary rather than a destroying one though, as though they intended to occupy the territory they were mapping rather than nuke it.

ricksunny

Wake me up when they offer an unredacted, unadulterated map of S4.

mallory854

I'll never get tired of maps! There's so much to learn.