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Epstein still refuses to draw flat conclusions. Yet he weaves a skein of circumstantial evidence suggesting that Oswald learned key performance data on the CIA's U-2 plane while serving as a Marine radar controller at Atsugi, Japan, in 1957, and that he provided information to the Soviets either then or upon his defection to Russia in 1959. Oswald's information, the book suggests, enabled the Soviets to redesign their rocket-guidance systems so as to knock CIA Pilot Gary Powers out of the air over the Soviet Union...
Oswald's Marine specialty, radar controller, required above-average intelligence, and he ranked seventh in his training class in Biloxi, Miss. From visual, radio and radar observation at Atsugi, one base from which the U-2 operated, Oswald could have learned much about its speed, rate of climb and altitude...
That clipped series of radio messages-from an F-15 pilot reporting a "kill" during a training mission-tells much about modern air combat and why the planes best at it are in demand. Translated, the pilot's message is that his radar has locked onto an enemy plane-a "Judy" in U.S. airmen's jargon-67° to the right of his aircraft and that the missile he fired sent the enemy spiraling into the sea. Flying at speeds of up to 2,000 m.p.h.-33 miles a minute-the pilot got his splash faster than...
...preset destination and the estimated arrival time. The ultimate auto will make the solid gold Cadillac look leaden. It will accommodate a pencil-size portable phone capable of reaching any number in the world in seconds, automatic braking that will take over from a panicked driver, and a mini-radar to avert collisions...
...complicated method of outguessing the competition in order to make bids for oil leases as low as possible, yet still win them. The Canadian suit named Arne R. Nielsen, president of Mobil Oil Canada, who was well versed in highly classified and arcane Mobil technology, including its airborne radar propane seep detector and computer graphics modeling system...