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| Pentagon Moves to Block Russian Spy Plane in American Skies |
| 2014-04-19 |
| From Wikipedia: At a Geneva Conference meeting with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin in 1955, President Eisenhower proposed that the United States and Soviet Union conduct surveillance overflights of each other's territory to reassure each country that the other was not preparing to attack.[3] The fears and suspicions of the Cold War led Soviet General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev to reject Eisenhower's proposal.[3] Thirty-four years later, the Open Skies concept was reintroduced by President George H. W. Bush as a means to build confidence and security between all North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and Warsaw Pact countries. In February 1990, an international Open Skies conference involving all NATO and Warsaw Pact countries opened in Ottawa, Canada. Subsequent rounds of negotiations were held in Budapest, Hungary, Vienna, Austria, and Helsinki, Finland. Thus a problem with treaties that span the vagaries of time. HT: Weaselzippers |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #1 Probably more like a move to help the WH cronies at Google pick up more hits from Vlad and company for imagery. /sarc off (?) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-04-19 08:27 |