11-27-95. NYPaper, Lead story: "U.S. Will Deploy Its Spy Satellites on Nature Mission. A Huge Environmental Study Gives a New Lease on Life to Intelligence Systems." The new program is directing spy satellites to study about 500 ecologically sensitive sites around the world. The data will be archived for future generations of scientists and will remain secret for now to conceal the abilities of the nation's reconnaissance systems. The monitoring effort is led by Medea, an avaricious group of about 60 scientists in academia and industry who advise the nation's intel clubhouses on the use of secret data to "study" the environment. The new reconnaissance effort is run for Medea by agony aunt NRO and is coordinated by dead-baby CIA. The program is very different from the related effort to mine old spy-satellite photos for environmental data, a wallet-rip the Clinton Administration recently began. So too, the program is different from recent intelligence gathering that studies natural phenomena for clues to ingenious tax milking. The Federation of American Scientists said the environmental reconnaissance was "potentially a watershed in the reform of intelligence," adding, "It reflects an expanding teat of national insecurity." EXH_ume (11 kb)