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Captured U.S. drone exposes covert surveillance
By DOUGLAS BIRCH can.” adversaries,” Powers said.
The Associated Press Hadley said that if Iran The difference this time,
continues to defy U.N. res- Powers said, was that “there
WASHINGTON — The olutions and doesn’t curb are no family members that
loss to Iran of the CIA’s its nuclear ambitions, the have to be notified, there’s
surveillance drone bris- quiet conflict “will only get no prisoner in a foreign
tling with advanced spy nastier.” country.”
technology is more than a Some historians and for- The U-2 downing
propaganda coup and in- eign policy experts com- shocked U.S. military
telligence windfall for the pared the drone incident planners, who thought
Tehran government. The to the Soviet Union’s 1960 the advanced aircraft flew
plane’s capture has peeled downing of the U-2 spy too high to be hit by a So-
back another layer of secrecy plane and pilot Francis viet missile. Likewise, Iran
from expanding U.S. opera- Gary Powers. While those says it used advanced elec-
tions against Iran’s nuclear two countries sparred pub- tronic warfare measures
and military programs. licly on many issues, the to detect, hack and bring
Just as the Soviet Union’s world only occasionally down an RQ-170 Sentinel
downing of the American glimpsed each side’s secret drone.
U-2 spy plane revealed a operations. Iran aired TV footage
hidden aspect of the Cold “When I first heard Thursday of what current The AssociATed Press
War, Iran’s recovery of the about the drone, my first and former U.S. officials THIS pHOTO released on Thursday by the iranian revolutionary Guards claims to show a
drone has shed light on the thought was thank good- confirm is the missing Sen- U.s. rQ-170 sentinel drone which Tehran said its forces downed earlier this week.
espionage that is part of ness there wasn’t a pilot in tinel. The robotic aircraft
U.S.-Iran hostilities. it,” said Francis Gary Pow- suffered what appeared to of hostility.” assessments indicate that ing it down or using elec-
Iran has charged the ers Jr., the son of the U-2 pi- be only minimal damage. American officials said Iran played no role in the tronic or cybertechnology
United States or its allies lot and founder of the Cold Iran protested Friday to Friday that U.S. intelligence downing, either by shoot- to force it from the sky.
with waging a campaign of War Museum. the United Nations about
cyberwarfare and sabotage, “They were both on in- what it described as “pro-
and of assassinating some telligence-gathering mis- vocative and covert opera-
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United States has accused ing photo reconnaissance. The Tehran government
the Iranian government of They were both supporting called the flight by the
helping kill U.S. troops in the U.S. government’s in- drone a “blatant and un-
Afghanistan and plotting telligence-gathering to find provoked air violation” that
to murder the Saudi am- out intelligence about our was “tantamount to an act
bassador in Washington.
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