Snowden Documents Reveal Scope of Secrets Exposed to China in 2001 Spy Plane Incident (theintercept.com)
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Snowden Documents Reveal Scope of Secrets Exposed to China in 2001 Spy Plane Incident
'That wasn’t the case with the spy plane, which carried a trove of surveillance equipment and classified signals intelligence data. '
'Military trucks met the spy plane on the ground, and steered it to the runway’s end where two-dozen Chinese soldiers surrounded the plane. '
'The spy plane involved in the 2001 collision was one of 11 such aircraft the U.S. used to fill critical intelligence gaps left by satellites. '
'For more than a decade, U.S. officials have refused to say what secrets China might have gleaned from the plane. '
'But the information the investigators considered the most sensitive on the plane were the tasking instructions for collecting data from China. '
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derram ago
https://archive.is/BbvuX | https://vgy.me/dA6ECU.png :
'That wasn’t the case with the spy plane, which carried a trove of surveillance equipment and classified signals intelligence data. '
'Military trucks met the spy plane on the ground, and steered it to the runway’s end where two-dozen Chinese soldiers surrounded the plane. '
'The spy plane involved in the 2001 collision was one of 11 such aircraft the U.S. used to fill critical intelligence gaps left by satellites. '
'For more than a decade, U.S. officials have refused to say what secrets China might have gleaned from the plane. '
'But the information the investigators considered the most sensitive on the plane were the tasking instructions for collecting data from China. '
This has been an automated message.