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CIA ranks Israel third most aggressive spying force active against US: Document
The US Central Intelligence Agency has ranked Israel as the third most aggressive “intelligence service” working against the United Sates, a leaked document shows. The National Security Agency document, obtained by NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward
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US steps up spying on Russia: Report
US intelligence services and the military are scrambling to expand spy satellite coverage and communications-interception efforts across Russia amid heightened tensions over the Ukrainian crisis. The plan for increased surveillance comes as US military satellites
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The U.S. military’s mysterious space drone preparing for another launch, mission still unknown
The highly mysterious X-37B OTV-3 (Orbital Test Vehicle) – which is, essentially, a drone boosted into orbital spaceflight – is being prepared for its third top secret space flight in October. The previous X-37B remained
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Spy Satellite Companies Form Space Monopoly
Earlier this year, the spy satellite industry was hit hard by defense budget cuts. For the top two commercial satellite companies, which survive largely by providing imagery to the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies,
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Video: Secret Space Plane Shatters Orbital Record as Chinese Rival Looms
The second copy of the Air Force’s X-37B robotic space plane landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California early Saturday morning, ending a record-breaking 469-day orbital mission that began atop an Atlas rocket
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Top-secret US spy satellite blasts off amid mystery of what it will do (and why did the US blackout footage of launch?)
A rocket carrying a top-secret payload blasted off from the California coast yesterday. The Delta IV rocket lifted off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, about 130 miles north west of Los Angeles. The rocket contained
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Revealed: How America’s secret space plane has been in orbit for over a year – and no one knows what it’s doing
The U.S Air Force’s highly secret unmanned space plane was supposed to stay in space for nine months, but it’s now been there for a year and three days – and no one knows
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A Year Later, Mysterious Space Plane Is Still in Orbit
The Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane gets more mysterious by the day. Designed to spend up to nine months on unspecified errands in Earth’s orbit, the second copy of the Boeing-made craft, known
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