[Datenschleuder] [45]    Ever have the feeling someone's watching you ?

Ever have the feeling someone's watching you ? Washington -- Eyebrows went skywards in Washington last Week when CIA Director James Woolsey, testifying before an open session of the Senate Select Committee in Intelligence, raised no objection to suggestions that private firms be allowed to collect and sell sattelite-observation photos that can distinguish objects 1m in size from about 300km up. Reason: 1m resolution, which used to be the supreme achievement of sky spies, is passe. Air Force General Frank Horton, also testifying at hearings, quietly dismissed that as only "medium" capability. In fact, the American intelligence community within the past two years has archived what President Dwight Eisenhower once prematurety claimed: the capacity to spot a golf ball on the links. This means that agencies really do have the spy sight beloved of scriptwriters: they can read the license plates on cars. That eye in the sky has finally become a microscope in the cope. Autor: Time International No.48/93, Informed Sources

[Datenschleuder] [45]    Ever have the feeling someone's watching you ?