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The Progress-Index from Petersburg, Virginia • Page 7

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8 The Progress-Index, Petersburg-Colonial Heights, Sunday, May 22, 1980 Samos, Midas Satellites Top Better Spying Crash Program (Continued From Page One) layer of the ionosphere thence down to a distant point. A certain amount bounces back. Once perfected, this a a would permit powerful stations in the U. S. to monitor Russia for atomic testing and even for the blast-off of intercontinental missiles.

Also probable a step-up in on space weapons that could shoot down any Russian spy satellite that appears over the S. But don't expect results before 1970. Second Priority the Refinement of a dramatic machine to do a prosaic, essential job. That is, translate Russian into English electronically 90 times as fast as the average human translator. The objective: To double, possibly triple, the translation of key Russian documents.

This is more exciting than it sounds. Though it seems inconceivable, 90 per cent of the information that spies want is run- of-the-mill, non-secret information. Biggest U. S. spy weakness isn't that we don't know fiirmfjli Russian secrets.

I that we don't have enough information that's merely hard to got. It is obvious, for example, a if you know the ordinary economic i i a a i of a country you can i out pretty closefy its i i a i a includ'ing is missile capability. Third Priority An inlcnsr drive for a host of detailed sensing devices so sensitive they can hear a bird flying or a eat. TIROS WEATHER SATELLITE President Eisenhower says the pictures taken by Tiros are a rough example of what might be done with Samos. make these devices extremely small.

should even be possible to drop them in peacetime in select areas with little likelihood movement formation ctivers. In wartime, these and transmit this to American in- re- 29-HOUR SALE! HURRY! SEARS ROEBUCK AND CO SHOP MONDAY 12 FULL HOURS 9AM 'TIL 9PM! SHOP TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY 9AM 'TIL 9PM! re- "owls" would be dropped into enemy territory bv the tens of thousands. Some 'would he discovered. Many more be used in a 5I i. should be id OUn WOUld sible i in a few years scnd.nK mlnrmaUon.

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The peacetime uses are conjecture. Fourth Priority the overall mechanization of intelligence. That means devising better giant super electronic brains that would handle "mathematically" a great share of the digesting and analy- sing of the tons of intelligence dala that will begin to a i via satellites, machine translations, spies, radar and a host of specialixed secret electronic gadgets. The machines will do in hours what it would take men years to do. That means a great deal of analysis not possible today would become practical.

AJK! it means the spies won't be overwhelmed by a flood or material that no amount of men could go through, let alone ana- lyse. The human spy won't be forgotten in all this. We're going to have more. Not as many as the Russians. But each man will have a more intensive training in new techniques that can't be (old.

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