The History of Terrorism
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"'Remember those huge electronic boards from the movie 'Dr. Strangelove' that showed Russian bombers headed for the U.S. and ours headed at them?' he wrote."
"'The guerrillas had simply learned to confuse the American sensors with tape-recorded truck noises, bags of urine, and other decoys, provoking the release of countless tons of bombs onto empty jungle corridors which they then traversed at their...
"'Well, Task Force Alpha is a lot like that except with real-time displays in full color, three stories tall-it's the whole goddamned Ho Chi Minh Trail inn full, living color."
"But the main feature is this huge, three-story-tall Lucite...or maybe it's plastic, I don't know...full-color depiction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail with a real-time depiction of trucks coming down the trial. It's wild, man."
"Despite the failure, Igloo White's 'electronic fence' technology was deployed a few years later along America's border with Mexico."
"John T. Halliday, a retired air force pilot, described the Igloo White operation center in Thailand in his memoir."
"That included Project Igloo White, a multi-billion-dollar computerized surveillance barrier. Operated out of a secret air force base in Thailand, Igloo White involved depositing thousands of radio-controlled seismic sensors, microphones, and heat and...
"Then there's this main control room that looks like the one we saw on TV during the Apollo moon shots, or maybe something out of a James Bond movie. There's computer terminals everywhere."
"White was like a giant wireless alarm system that spanned hundreds of miles of jungle. As the US Air Force explained: 'We are, in effect, bugging the battlefield."
1968-1973 "Igloo White ran for five years with a total cost of somewhere near $5 billion-roughly $30 billion today. Though widely praised at the time, the project was ultimately judged an operational failure."