U.S./USSR/ SPACE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000301390010-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 2, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
2 October 1984
U.S./USSR/ JENNINGS: Three Soviet cosmonauts returned to Earth
SPACE today. It has been the longest space mission ever. The
Soviet news media said the flight has produced important
research, including 25,000 photographs of Earth. As ABC's
Jules Bergman reports, American officials don't like
everything the Soviets have been examining.
BERGMAN: The Salyut 11 spacecraft landed this morning in
central Asia in a cloud of dust and the cosmonauts
survived a record-breaking 232 days in orbit. They looked
and sounded fine after eight months in orbit, which the
Soviets say was a productive scientific mission. But Air
Force intelligence sources tell ABC News that the Salyut
space station, the vehicle the cosmonauts have worked in
for nearly eight months, is equipped with high-powered
cameras and electronic reconnaissance devices. Salyut hab
been in orbit for four years and has made thousands of
passes over the United States. On almost every pass, U.S.
sources say its cameras were trained on military targets.
The U.S. knows this by intercepting radio signals from the
spacecraft. Under observation were major military bases,
including Edwards Air Force Base in California and the
nuclear submarine-building yards at New London, Conn.
Salyut has also performed another form of intelligence,
electronically intercepting the signals from U.S. spy
satellites and infrared early-warning satellites, so the
Russians know just what it is we know. That way they can
change their methods of disguising key military
installations. The U.S. has plans to do the same thing.
Today the crew of the shuttle flight scheduled for this
Friday arrived at Cape Canaveral. One of their tasks will
reportedly be to get pictures of Soviet military targets.
Jules Bergman, ABC News, New York.
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