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Thursday, January 10, 2013

What Did Google Earth Spot in the Chinese Desert? Even an Ex-CIA Analyst Isn’t Sure


China's Mystery Complex
Late last month, former CIA analyst Allen Thomson was clicking through a space news website when he noticed a story about a new orbital tracking site being built near the small city of Kashgar in southwestern China.

Curious, he went to Google Earth to find it. He poked around for a while, with no luck. Then he came across something kind of weird.

Thomson, who served in the CIA from 1972 to 1985 and as a consultant to the National Intelligence Council until 1996, has made something of a second career finding odd stuff in public satellite imagery.

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  1. Transformator12/1/13 00:31

    http://ogleearth.com/2013/01/kashgars-mystery-complex-is-not-complex-and-not-a-mystery/

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