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U.S. SPY SATELLITES CAN KEEP THEIR EYES ON THE SMALLEST DETAILS OF SOIVET MILITARY ACTIVITY.

Document Type: 
CREST [1]
Collection: 
General CIA Records [2]
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP90-00965R000100110094-9
Release Decision: 
RIFPUB
Original Classification: 
K
Document Page Count: 
1
Document Creation Date: 
December 22, 2016
Document Release Date: 
December 21, 2011
Sequence Number: 
94
Case Number: 
Publication Date: 
June 1, 1986
Content Type: 
OPEN SOURCE
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2011/12/21 : CIA-RDP90-00965R000100110094-9 JACK ANDERSON'S WASHINGTON LETTER June 1986 Vol. III, No.11 U.S. spy satellites can keep their eyes on the smallest details of Soviet military activity. TRUE. A recent National Security Council report, stamped "Secret," gives an idea of how specific the CIA's information from its spy satellites can be: The Soviets have developed what the West refers to as "Flat Twin" radars that could conceivably serve as anti-ballistic missile detectors. It has three of them, all built at the Sary Shagan test area in Central Asia. The first radar stayed where it was. But the CIA satellites recorded every stage of the second one's 3,600-mile move across Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula on the Pacific Ocean. The third was built to replace the one that was moved. Declassified and Approved For Release 2011/12/21 : CIA-RDP90-00965R000100110094-9
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