LAND, Edwin H.
Inventor of polarized filters and instant-film camera (Polaroid). Head of TCP group investigating US intelligence-gathering capabilities. Supported development of high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft under civilian not military control. Also on BCFIA.
LEGHORN, Richard S.
MIT graduate (physics). Member of US Army Air Forces in 1942 working for reconnaissance expert Col George Goddard and later chief of reconnaissance 9th Tactical Air Force. Proponent of pre-D day, strategic intelligence. Recalled to active duty during Korean War later serving in Eisenhower administration disarmament office headed by Harold Stassen.
LEIGH, Monroe
DOD assistant general counsel for international affairs and opponent of Becker. Proposed presidential proclamation regarding the legality of reconnaissance satellites as failing to adequately protect DOD space missions. Opposed the use of the law of the sea as the analogous basis for evolving outer space law. Active in the evaluation of proposals leading to the eventual Liability Convention.
LINDSEY, Richard C.
Major general, USAF, and acting assistant deputy chief of staff for operations who was thrust into the middle of Air Force efforts to stop Cooper's efforts.
LOVETT, Robert A.
World War II assistant secretary of war for air who recommended creation of ACC.
MENTER, Martin
Colonel (later brigadier general), USAF JAG corps. Author of "Astronautical Law" (1959), first major substantive Air Force evaluation of outer space law. Coined the phrase ex facto oritur jus as being applicable to space. "Astronautical Law" was perceived to be one of the first major treatises on outer space law generally. Had "run-in" with Lt Gen Richard Montgomery over legality of U-2 flight.
MONTGOMERY, Richard M.
Lieutenant general, USAF. Air Force assistant vice chief of staff who
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