Quiet arms race continues, retired CIA officer says
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Everyone realizes that military R & D
didn't come to a halt all over the world when the Berlin wall fell. Here is
one perspective from a man who certainly should know what he's talking about.
--- snip --- By KEITH ROGERS LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL Eugene Poteat is a living piece of Cold War history, and the 83-year-old retired CIA senior scientific intelligence officer believes the conflict is still under way. “It just went underground” and continues to simmer beneath the friendly atmosphere portrayed today by leaders of the United States and Russia. He said so in an hourlong interview before speaking to the Las Vegas chapter of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and military colleagues at the Nellis Air Force Base Officers Club in late February. The president of the 5,000-member association of former spooks was in Las Vegas on “a simple mission,” he said, one much different from the mind-boggling, covert activities of a career that included operations at Area 51 during the “high-water mark” of the Cold War in the early 1960s. --- snip --- Read the entire article at: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/quiet-arms-race-continues-retired-cia-officer-says |
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