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As DNI Dennis Blair highlighted in his GEOINT 2009 keynote speech, GEOINT played a critical role in the historic confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, especially when Navy Capt. William B. Ecker led low-level sorties over Cuba in October 1962 and provided photographic evidence of Russian missile installations that almost led to a nuclear confrontation. We are sad to announce that Captain Ecker died Nov. 5 at a hospital near his home in Punta Gorda, Fla. He had coronary artery disease. Read the full Washington Post obituary here.

Tags: Capt. William B. Ecker, Cuba, Cuban Missle Crisis, GEOINT, Russian