Word: supersecret
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their supersecret war on terrorism, U.S. intelligence agents routinely consult a specially developed computer system, programmed with the arcane knowledge of a handful of terrorism experts, to anticipate and avert terrorist actions. The year-old system has reportedly helped predict terrorist attacks in Western Europe...
...year ago, Baker and the President worked out an understanding on objectives. Baker drew up a battle plan in Santa Barbara, which Reagan read and signed, one of those supersecret documents that archivists someday will exhume from the recesses of the presidential vaults. "In general, we pretty much did what we set out to do," says Baker...
Similar shortcomings plague the glasnost-proof, supersecret Soviet military space program. At any one time, say U.S. intelligence analysts, the U.S.S.R. is operating some 150 satellites, and perhaps as many as 120 are believed to be performing military missions. For hours each day, say intelligence analysts, Soviet Cosmos military satellites drift over the U.S., photographing missile silos and naval deployments. Other Soviet spacecraft lurk with sensitive electronic ears that can pick up telephone conversations in Washington, while Meteor weather satellites monitor conditions over key U.S. targets. Soviet infrared satellites watch for the telltale heat signaling a launch of U.S. ICBMs...
...Soviets have good reason to be vigilant. In 1968 a Soviet submarine sank in the Pacific. Six years later the CIA sent a supersecret salvage platform ship, the Glomar Explorer, to the site; it succeeded in raising part of the ship, along with the bodies of 70 Soviet crewmen, from 3 miles down. But no missiles or codes are known to have been recovered. Today, says Navy Spokesman Lieut. Ken Ross, the Glomar Explorer is "being retained for Navy contingency use at the Maritime Administration site in Suisun Bay, Calif. If there's something that comes up and we determine...
...Congress was not told that $20 million of that sum went to set up a supersecret intelligence unit, the ISA, under the command of Colonel Jerry , King. (The role of regular Army intelligence is to collect tactical military information, not to lay the ground for covert operations.) ISA initially was to act as a pathfinder for secret missions, but its functions quickly expanded. When General William Odom became assistant chief of staff for intelligence in late 1981, he argued persuasively that ISA was needed to fill gaps in the CIA's activities. Its personnel grew from about...