BB pal Vann Hall says:
This is one of those cases where reality is far weirder than anything a parodist could imagine: "NRO: Forty Years of Reconnaissance."
It's a now-declassified, um, music video by and in praise of the National Reconnaissance Office, the once super-secret spy agency responsible for the U.S.'s satellite and aerial reconnaissance missions. (Established in 1960, the NRO's very existence was classified until 1992. This was timely, as a couple of years later the agency built itself a $300 million headquarters — the existence of which it also tried to keep classified, until someone thought to check the local planning office — using part of the $1.5 billion or so in unspent funding it had socked away in a "rainy day fund.")
The video is a hoot: Over a montage of satellite launches, dial-twiddling technicians, and military hardware, intercut with historical footage from the past 40 years, an overly earnest rock balladeer sings of "Keep[ing] the Peace Alive." The Memory Hole, responsible for putting the spot online, was especially impressed by the song's timeless refrain:
"And we'll be there when you call,
Even Friday night's all right.
We'll see and hear it all,
Taking it on with all our might
To keep the peace alive."
Link to video at the Internet Archive, Link to more NRO videos at the Memory Hole
