But the Washington Post, which reported the story on Sunday, was told by several people that the name was still visible at points during the 1980s and 90s.
They say that, when told of this unease, the national party responded that the panel could have found out about it by putting her name into the Google search engine, because it had previously been reported in the press.
The code name and scope of the project and other details of the effort were reported on Friday by the New York Times in an adaptation from a coming book.
U.S. sales of the civilian versions of the famous Kalishnikov AK-47 s, old under the brand name Saiga, rose by 50% in 2011, The New York Times reported from Russia on Aug 14, 2012.