Spying...
It is fascinating how nuclear was not seen at he time so dangerous.
So much risk on the environment for 'just' listening the Chinese telecom.
Funny how they publish this on their own website given as they still don't officially confirm the operation according to the other article linked above
Well this is just a set of press clippings, and you could consider it's just part of their open-source collection of things relevant to them.
It's neither an admission nor a denial. But I get your perspective on it being funny, and it is. Just like there's data in there on UFOs and aliens even tho CIA doesn't officially confirm those.
I think the FOIA reading room is basically like a library of interesting things. I'm surprised more people don't see the value of the stuff in that library. It's one of the best digital collections online, I think. And the search through scanned PDFs is pretty great...I suppose you can expect that from an intelligence agency.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81M00980...