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...major Soviet | espionage ring. Mulroney confirmed that six days earlier Ottawa had expelled eight Soviet diplomats and declared nine others persona non grata for "improper and unacceptable behavior." That was a euphemism for what proved to be one of the most brazen Soviet efforts in years to steal supersecret American military technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Spy Wars | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...tasks like organizing food and medical supplies for periods of curfew and supplying money to the poorer families. Another subcommittee ensures that foreign and Israeli journalists covering the uprising have access to the Palestinian side of the story. The most important committee is the one for "struggle operations." This supersecret, three- or four-member group decides what specific actions to take, from stone throwing to confrontations with the Israeli army. Once a tactic is approved, word is passed to the camp's or village's popular committee. From there, individual faction leaders mobilize their forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Who's Running the Insurrection? | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Knowledge to Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Baker's End-Game Plan | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep Secrets | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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