In an earlier interview, former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer said the Italian military secret service had approved the operation involving Hassan, and CIA sources who refused to be named told CNN in 2005 that the agency had briefed and sought approval from its Italian counterpart for such an abduction.
The second-youngest orbiter, named after the world's longest-serving scientific research vessel (the RV Atlantis), first blasted into space on October 3, 1985 on a military mission for the Department of Defense -- yet again to do secret military stuff.
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The Air Force reportedly tested a number of top secret military jets, including the Stealth fighter, at this facility.
In 2007, he published thousands of pages of secret military information detailing a vast number of Army procurements in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The intelligence analyst, who joined the US Army in 2007, is accused of leaking 720, 000 secret military and diplomatic US government documents.
The cybersecurity company tracked the attacks to specific networks in Shanghai and some to the headquarters of one of China's secret military groups.
It was a secret - top secret military technology that kind of allowed soldiers to have translations of languages in places like Afghanistan.
Rogue soldiers have operated with impunity, partly because investigations against them are run by secret military tribunals even when the alleged crime is against a civilian.
Until three years ago, Star City, the cosmonaut training centre on the outskirts of Moscow, was that place -- a secret military facility that was unmarked on the world map.
On the eve of the crisis on 1 May 1977, Secretary of State Roy Mason received a secret military assessment by Lt Col P B Evans, Moscow Camp, Belfast.
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The report determined that about 5 percent of sightings those for which there is enough solid documentation to eliminate other possibilities cannot be easily attributed to earthly sources, such as secret military exercises or natural phenomena.
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An intelligence official in the Middle East, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to disclose information about a secret military operation to the media, confirmed that Israel launched an airstrike in the Syrian capital early Sunday but did not give more precise details about the location.
Will the Sandinistas try to coerce the victorious President-elect Chamorro into accepting what would amount to a coalition government, with Sandinista officials in key positions such as those controlling (and staffing) the military, the secret police, the banks, educational institutions, and the media, communications and transportation sectors of the economy?
Since this was a classified mission for the Department of Defense (you know, to handle super secret military stuff), the shuttle's crew was forced to encrypt the images of the damaged tiles it sent back to NASA, which lowered the resolution of the images enough that the ground crew wrote off the damage as a trick of the light.
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When South Korea was a military dictatorship, its secret policemen thought nothing of bugging political dissenters.
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Officials insist that other networks, for top-secret, military and intelligence material, are intact.
He was looking at a copy of classified rules of engagement in Iraq from 2006, one of several secret American military documents that he was planning to post with the video.
The size of the military budget and even the military presence in Chechnya are secret.
Witnesses have included a former Rhodesian commando, referred to as Mr K, who was recruited to run the South African military's top-secret hit squad.
As for Pakistan, the US's assassination of Osama bin Laden last month exposed the dirty secret of Pakistani military collaboration with al Qaida for all to see.
Industry peers know surprisingly little about BAE Systems operations in the United States, because much of what the company does for the military and intelligence agencies is secret.
He suggested the sub may have been spying on a top secret consignment of military grade plutonium, shipped from the French port of Cherbourg to Japan on board a British nuclear transport vessel.
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Pte Manning has been widely named as the prime suspect, and in March 2011, the US Army charged him with 22 extra counts relating to the unauthorised possession and distribution of more than 720, 000 secret diplomatic and military documents.
Alternatively, this information could have been obtained by Soviet Colonel-General Albert Makashov, commander of the huge Siberian military district and a unabashed advocate of the assertive use of Soviet military power, who held secret meetings with the Iraqi Foreign Minister in Baghdad shortly before the invasion of Kuwait.
Javier Rebolledo, author of a book about human rights violations carried out by the secret police under military rule, had his computer hard disk stolen and Cristobal Pena, who wrote a political thriller set in the Pinochet era, had his entire computer stolen, Mr Weibel told Chilean radio.
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For sixty years this country has been a military dictatorship backed by a nasty secret police force.
But weeks later his words appeared prophetic when he was arrested by military investigators on suspicion of stealing secret information.
The Secret Service and their military support team were idiots to assume that they could act badly and get away with it.
Concerns about a security breach, as well as outrage over the salacious nature of the scandal, have motivated multiple investigations by the Secret Service, the military, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general and several congressional committees.
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