Monday, November 18, 2013

"A Russian GPS Using U.S. Soil Stirs Spy Fears"

In recent months, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon have been quietly waging a campaign to stop the State Department from allowing Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, to build about half a dozen of these structures, known as monitor stations, on United States soil, several American officials said.
They fear that these structures could help Russia spy on the United States and improve the precision of Russian weaponry, the officials said. These monitor stations, the Russians contend, would significantly improve the accuracy and reliability of Moscow’s version of the Global Positioning System, the American satellite network that steers guided missiles to their targets and thirsty smartphone users to the nearest Starbucks.

“They don’t want to be reliant on the American system and believe that their systems, like GPS, will spawn other industries and applications,” said a former senior official in the State Department’s Office of Space and Advanced Technology. “They feel as though they are losing a technological edge to us in an important market. Look at everything GPS has done on things like your phone and the movement of planes and ships.”
NYT

4 comments:

bagoh20 said...

One thing is for certain: that Putin is no bed wetter.

AllenS said...
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bagoh20 said...

A hidden provision in Obamacare requires every citizen to make daily use of new Russian supplied suppositories. It's for your health.

Methadras said...

Oh no, our own State Dept. has allowed Russians to set up listening posts in the US? Do they even have the power to allow this to happen? What do the FBI or CIA have to say about this? White House perhaps? Is the Radical Leftist Marxist takeover in full swing now out in the open?