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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ongoing broad survey of the terrain below, CIA Director Stansfield Turner and other U.S. intelligence chiefs rely on spy satellites. Using precision-tooled, high-resolution lenses, a satellite can take a remarkably clear photograph of a one-foot object from 100 miles overhead. The pictures, which are recorded in black and white, color or infrared, may be transmitted almost instantaneously to ground stations in the U.S. The satellite is also equipped with electronic listening devices that can pick up military and government radio messages and store them on endless miles of tape...
...began to fear that the Soviet MiG-23s stationed in Cuba might be capable of carrying nuclear weapons. But satellite and SR-71 photos did not clear up the matter. It took HUMINT to do the job. An agent with access to the MiG airfield was sent in to take a snapshot of a friend who just happened to be standing in front of a MiG engine. The picture revealed an intake valve used only on non-nuclear planes...
...take U.S. intelligence so long to reach a not so remarkable conclusion? The intelligence did not seem to be faulty so much as underused. Explained Ray Cline, former Deputy Director for Intelligence of the CIA and now executive director for studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "It's one of the really great intelligence problems: where to put your talent and your time." In recent years, intelligence has concentrated on the areas of greatest concern: the Middle East and SALT. Given higher priority in Washington, the Soviets could have been detected much sooner...
...sunny California, Reagan Campaign Strategist John Sears claims that the issues now lying limp on the table will take form by the first snowfall. "When the cold weather comes, the price of home heating oil is going to be a shock," he says. Sears has an ally in former Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, who suggests that $1 a gallon for heating oil will be "a political disaster" in New England. Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Kansas get mighty cold too. Schlesinger also has a hunch that our chief supplier of imported oil, Saudi Arabia, will have something to say within these months...
Actually, few political professionals take the idea of a Mondale candidacy for the top spot seriously. They agree with Mondale's frequent assessment that he is too closely tied to Carter's fortunes. "My base is Carter's base," Mondale has insisted. "If he does well, I do well." Contends even one of Mondale's admirers: "Fritz hasn't got the guts to become a candidate on his own. If he did, he'd have broken with Carter long ago. The only way it could happen is if they kick...