[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

There is No Such Agency

[BIGLOOK]

Hmmm....Saturday afternoon History lesson or baseball?....

Thanks?

[RebelTex]

Thanks for the ping. It's an interesting history lesson.
I was hoping that it would continue through at least the '70s & '80s.

Important (& unanswered) questions which this brings to mind: If there was this much espionage by the USSR back then, how much occured during the '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s and since then? Why haven't there been more high profile cases made against suspects and known agents?

Are the NSA and other top US & UK agencies on top of current espionage efforts against us? (think Los Alamos, Chinese spys, etc.) Do we have adequate defenses against these efforts? Can the weakening of our own intelligence agencies be directly connected to the espionage activities of other countries? What are we doing to root out the spys in government and industry?

Just some food for thought.

[Wolverine]

Today is a special anniversary for me.  October 16, 1964. 

 

China becomes world's 5th nuclear power

 

Fateful Firecracker

It was probably the most thoroughly anticipated explosion in history. For years Western experts had been predicting that the Chinese would perform the feat before long. Two weeks ago, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said so again. Last week, with consummate timing, less than a day after Nikita Khrushchev's downfall was announced, the Chinese finally did it. From a steel tower in the desert of western Sinkiang, north of the Himalayas, they exploded a crude nuclear device.It had taken them 14 years, cost them more than $200 million and the talents of 1,800 scientists and engineers.

China explodes its first atomic bomb at Lop Nor testing site in Sinkiang Province. Following the test, the Chinese government states, "The atomic bomb is a paper tiger. This famous statement by Chairman Mao Zedong is known to all. This was our view in the past and this is still our view at present. China is developing nuclear weapons not because it believes in their omnipotence nor because it plans to use them. On the contrary, in developing nuclear weapons, China's aim is to break the nuclear monopoly of the nuclear powers and to eliminate nuclear weapons."