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Inside a U.S. ferret satellite flashing around the earth at 17,000 m.p.h., supersensitive instruments intercept and flick back to Virginia a radio message between Moscow and a Soviet submarine in the Pacific. In Laos, an American listens attentively to the words of a cocktail waiter, then slips him a bar of silver. In an office of the U.S. embassy in Bonn, a rotund Sovietologist digests a stack of reports that may originate from any one of a thousand sources -a barber in East Berlin, a whorehouse madam in Vienna, a U.S. electronics salesman in Darmstadt, an Eastern European propaganda...
...bastards are uncanny in the things they seem to know," says one Navy officer. Often the Conserver's radar will show a blank horizon, when suddenly the Gidrofon jumps into action, heading out to intercept American ships far in the distance. Some U.S. experts think the Soviets are equipped with a below-the-horizon radar that Moscow has bragged about but never shown. "I don't know how Ivan does it," says Hilder, "but I'm impressed...
...Hanoi as four Air Force F-4C Phantom II jetfighters, flying "CAP" (Combat Air Patrol) for a bombing strike on the Bac Giang bridge linking Hanoi with China, headed down to their orbit area. At 18,000 feet they picked up "bogies" on their radar, and wheeled to intercept them. Within minutes they spotted six MIG-175 flying level in close formation below them. The MIGs jettisoned their external gas tanks, split up, and with cannons winking, climbed to meet the Phantoms' attack...
Last week the Federal Communications Commission moved part way to plug the bug. An FCC order banning private use of radio devices to intercept private conversations-with a maximum fine of $500 a day for convicted snoopers-applies to scores of bugging techniques. Not affected is eavesdropping apparatus that does not use radio, such as a microphone connected by wire to a hidden listening post, or a disguised tape recorder. Law-enforcement agencies are exempt from the ban though still subject to local laws and regulations...
Worth the Gamble? Nike-X would use two types of missiles. One is the Nike-Zeus, a long-range, supersonic bird that, in tests, has already proved its ability to intercept and down an ICBM traveling 18,000 m.p.h. far above the atmosphere. The other is Sprint, a shorter-range missile with a tremendous but highly classified starting power. Sprint has months, or even years, of testing to go before it can even begin to be considered operational. But the idea is that the Nike-Zeus would go off first, seek out and try to destroy all incoming, outer-atmosphere...