MILITARY SATELLITES KEEP BOTH SIDES HONEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000200990007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 18, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT
k,
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/20: CIA-RDP90-00965R000200990007-8
BOSTON GLOBE
tdil~ 5'=` 18 February, 1985
satellites
Military
both sides honest
keep
Their tasks: reconnaissance, communications, navigation
r
c
ily spying on each other's nations. since'the '60s and they are W..0 1.1.L
While it may have been unusual timing their weight in ga]o Vie' are sta two January launches were just
for two such similar - and top secret - mill- bilizing, because they help, us to the latest in a long line of satellites
tary payloads to be sent aloft within hours avoid miscalculations egne onitor
of e eto In a lectronic signals. Different sat
of each other, the payloads themselves were ; .While..military satellites have
absolutely routine. been `around since, the beginning ellites, or in some cases different
Last year alone, the United States of Race travel, so