In article ,
Pat Flannery wrote:


JimO wrote:

There is a delicious story involving deliberate US deception here.

Our side misled the Russkies into NOT worrying about a bird that
obviously WAS in a reccesat-type orbit, or so it is said.

I have been assured by deep-inside veterans that a) the story is true,
and b) the story is false.


How does The Cigarette Smoking Man figure into all this? :-D

That's *obvious* it's -not- a _pipe_dream_. groan.