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...military intelligence satellite called a SIGINT (for "signals intelligence"), which is able to intercept electronic messages. The 6,000- lb. bird was to be spring-ejected from the shuttle, then rocket-propelled into a geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above the equator. The satellite will allow the U.S. to eavesdrop on traffic between Moscow and Soviet missile command centers. Using radar and infrared, the SIGINT will also be able to "see" Soviet launches. Said a U.S. military official: "Our country needs to have a better assessment of our response capabilities where the Soviets are concerned, whether it is One-fifth...
...when Space Shuttle Mission 51-C lifts off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center next month, the flight will be shrouded in secrecy. For the first time in 45 U.S. manned space flights, reporters will not be supplied with the usual fact-stuffed press kits, or allowed to eavesdrop on communications between astronauts and Mission Control, or even permitted to follow the traditional countdown...
Though cutting back on the Soviet Union's ability to eavesdrop is the primary purpose of the new telesecurity program, U.S. officials point out that it could also foil surveillance attempts by other rivals, including unscrupulous economic competitors. Moreover, as Reagan has pointed out, the same technology used in foreign intelligence operations is increasingly available to "terrorist groups and criminal elements." -By WilliamR. Doerner...
...emerges as more tempestuous, and correspondingly more interesting, than was generally believed. There are no shattering revelations, to be sure: the two Allies' archives were declassified in 1972, and many historians have tilled these fields. But to read the voluminous wartime messages between Roosevelt and Churchill is to eavesdrop on history...
Written by David Pearson, 31, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Yale University, the article argues that the KAL crew was unbelievably negligent if it went so far off course without realizing it, and that American experts who track aircraft and eavesdrop on radio transmissions from Alaska to the Far East were even more incredibly incompetent if they failed to spot the errant flight. He contends that these specialists must have been particularly alert since they were aware of preparations by the Soviets to test a new missile on Aug. 31 aimed at the Kamchatka Peninsula, where the airliner first...