Dino A. Brugioni collection

Dino Antonio Brugioni (December 16, 1921 – September 25, 2015) was a former senior official at the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC). During World War II, Brugioni flew in 66 bombardment, and a number of reconnaissance, missions in World War II over North Africa, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia and France, and received the Purple Heart, nine Air Medals and a Distinguished Unit Citation. After the war, he received BA and MA degrees in Foreign Affairs from George Washington University, and joined the CIA in March 1948 and became an expert in Soviet industries. In 1955, he was selected as a member of the cadre of the newly formed Photographic Intelligence Division that would interpret U-2, SR-71 and satellite photography. During his 35-year career, Brugioni helped establish imagery intelligence (now called geospatial intelligence) as a national asset to solve intelligence problems.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dino A. Brugioni

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Dino A. Brugioni. Mr. Brugioni added the scrapbooks to the collection in 2012 and aerial photographs of additional camps in 2014.