I thought that "Military Intelligence" was a contradiction in terms...
Philip Arnold
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ang�l Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 06 April 2001 11:36
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: INtelligence is a terrible thing to lose..
>
>
> "U.S. officials have told allies they "were fairly confident that the most
> sensitive data was destroyed" during the 26 minutes between the
> accident and
> an emergency landing on Hainan, one source said. Nonetheless, that Western
> source, after a briefing by U.S. officials, described the arrival
> on Chinese
> soil of the EP-3 as a "fantastic windfall" for China's military
> intelligence.
>
> "Given the Chinese ability to reverse-engineer these types of things, the
> intelligence loss is pretty serious," he said.
>
> Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), a naval intelligence reservist who was briefed by
> Pentagon officials on the situation, said in Washington that
> there has been
> a "considerable" loss of intelligence.
>
> "We don't know how much they got rid of" before the plane landed, he said.
> "A lot of stuff is bolted, so it takes a while to get rid of it."
>
> Kirk, who flew on a similar Air Force reconnaissance plane during
> the Kosovo
> air campaign, said the EP-3 lacks any defensive capabilities. "Its sole
> ability is the big American insignia on the outside of the fuselage," he
> said. "
>
>
> Hmmmm...that's why there's all this concern over the chinese acquiring the
> equipment.
> WHo knows..next year this situation might be played out again, only this
> time off the coast of the US?
>
> -Gel
>
>
>
>
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