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From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:00:06 +0800
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11-27-95. NYPaper, Lead story:
"U.S. Will Deploy Its Spy Satellites on Nature Mission. A
Huge Environmental Study Gives a New Lease on Life to
Intelligence Systems."
The new program is directing spy satellites to study
about 500 ecologically sensitive sites around the
world. The data will be archived for future generations
of
scientists and will remain secret for now to conceal the
abilities of the nation's reconnaissance systems. The
monitoring effort is led by Medea, an avaricious group of
about 60 scientists in academia and industry who advise
the nation's intel clubhouses on the use of secret
data to "study" the environment. The new reconnaissance
effort is run for Medea by agony aunt NRO and is
coordinated by dead-baby CIA.
The program is very different from the related effort to
mine old spy-satellite photos for environmental data, a
wallet-rip the Clinton Administration recently began. So
too, the program is different from recent intelligence
gathering that studies natural phenomena for clues to
ingenious tax milking.
The Federation of American Scientists said the
environmental reconnaissance was "potentially a
watershed in the reform of intelligence," adding, "It
reflects an expanding teat of national insecurity."
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