Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there would be no more U.S. spy flights over the Soviet Union. Three years later, however, Lockheed unveiled another super flying machine that could probably make the trip with impunity: the needle-nosed SR-71 (for strategic reconnaissance), a 12-ton aircraft that travels three times the speed of sound at more than 85,000 ft. Armed with electronic "spoofing" gadgetry capable of disrupting enemy tracking systems and even wiping its own image off a radar scope, the plane is nicknamed "Blackbird" for its sooty heat-resistant paint job. The world's highest-flying and fastest manned airplane...
Microwaves, the short radio waves that have been adapted to cook roasts and heat frozen dinners in compact kitchen ovens, are also used to bug conversations in nearby rooms or vehicles. Metal resonators buried around a room will vibrate from sounds in the air. The microwaves are bounced off the resonator, carrying the vibrations back to the eavesdropper's receiver. The spoken words are then reproduced electronically. Such gear has allegedly been used for a U.S. surveillance project called Gamma Guppy that has tried to eavesdrop on conversations conducted by members of the Soviet Politburo in their limousines. Another...
China. The General Administration of Intelligence operates mostly in Asia, Africa and in centers of Overseas Chinese. Technologically weak, but sound on analysis. Especially concerned with Soviet industrial development in Siberia...
Norway and Sweden. Both sound on Soviet Union, but Norway has edge, with access to NATO intelligence...
...Chinese visit was an indication of Peking's desire to use Western technology as a means of dramatically increasing oil production. It is a sound strategy, since China has the potential to become a true oil giant and it has barely tapped its resources. Like the Soviets, the Chinese refuse to disclose precise data about reserves; because large parts of the country have not been thoroughly surveyed by oil geologists, the Chinese themselves probably have only imprecise figures. The lowest foreign estimate of Chinese reserves, a 1977 guess by the American Petroleum Institute, puts them at 20 billion...