PENTAGON CONFIRMS WORK ON RADAR-INVISIBLE PLANE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B00478R000800340043-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 2013
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: August 22, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The .Pentagon confirmed yesterday
that it was working on a "Stealth" air-
plane that would be virtually invisible
to enemy radar.
Pentagon spokesman Thomas B.
Ross said that One reason the Carter
administration was lifting the veil of'
secrecy surrounding the plane was
that advances in the Stealth .program
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Most people spend 30 to 40
percent of their waking hours
daydreaming, a: 'University of
Minnesoth researcher says.
And frequent daydreaming
is both healtliful and, produc- ?
five, Erick Klinger, a psycho-
logy professor, reported. Wed-
nesday. ?
"We used to he told that day-
dreaming was. neurcitic." .
ger said:"That view was dam-
aging and made people an.xV
ous about their fantasies. Act-
ually it would be abnormal
and 'unhealthy not to day-
dream." ?
Nling.er said the mind ? natu-
rally takes breaks from on
eentrated thought. "Much .of
what we do during our daily
routines is automatic," he Paid. -
'There are many S!il.CeS in our
thinkinh that don't require our
immediate attention!' .
Thoughts that .oecur while
daydreaming can lead to creat-
ire insights. Klinger contends,
thus becoming a productive .
tool on the job. Klinger said.
daydreams relax and s ti mu,
late the brain.
In his re:3earch. Klinger
used volunteer. college stu- ?
dents who carried beepers and
wrote down what they were
thinking each time the beeper
sounded.
are "part of Congress' consideration
of a new manned bomber!' ?
Also, said Ross, the program has
reached the point where it will re-
quire much more money. While he did
not say so. Ross indicated that Stealth
was getting too big to hide in the Pen-
tagon budget.
Skeptics at the Pentagon and in
Congress theorized yesterday that the
real reason the Pentagon was disclos-
ing Stealth waS to strengthen Presi-
dent Carter in rebutting charges that
he has let down the nation's. defenses.
.Carter canceled the B1 bomber in
1977, a decision that the Republican
presidential nominee, Ronald ? Reagan,
and others have focused on in attack-
ing administration defense policies.
. The Stealth program, Ross said yes-
terday, "has been the subject of a
very intensive administration effort
? since the beginning of the adminsitra-
don." Tie said news of the secret pro-
ject had been leaking out to reporters,
and the number of people. being
briefed on it had widened, increasing
the chance Inc additional ne?y,,s leaks.
'Given that situation, Ross said, the
Pentagon will try to hold a public
briefing on Stealth "hopefully in the
next few days."
One congressional defense specialist
theorized yesterday that election-year
politics was the biggest reason for the
Pentagon's sudden cbnfirmation of
Stealth-.
. .
"If they could keep it secret for
Over two years, they wouldn't have to
go public now if it weren't for poli-
tics," he said.
In approVing? the fiscal 1931 weap-
ons bill, the House and Senate. Armed
Services committees directed the Pen-
tagen to choose a new bomber by
March 15, :1981, and have it on duty by
1987.
However. congressional sources pre-
dicted yesterday that the advances in
Stealth technology were so impressive
that if Congress got a firm adminis-
tration commitment on the. bomber it
might extend the . 1987 deadline.
Stealth could not be ready until the
1,990s.
. The 'Washington Post reported on
Stealth' Aug. 14, and said the break-
through in . technology "will enable '?
Carter to ?argue that his cancellation
[of the B1.1 was a good move bccaese
the contemplated new bomber could
foil Soviet defenses, which are becom-
ing lethal enough to clown a Bl."
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/12/23: CIA-RDP92B00478R000800340043-0