CBS Evening News - 1989-01-10
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[0:04] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:07] reporting. Good evening. CBS News has
[0:09] exclusive details tonight of a possible
[0:12] espionage coup by the Soviets. It
[0:14] involves some of this nation's most
[0:16] sensitive nuclear missile secrets. The
[0:19] top secret nose cone of a long range US
[0:22] nuclear missile is missing. The missile
[0:25] was test fired in 1987 from California's
[0:28] Vandenberg Air Force Base into South
[0:30] Pacific waters off the Marshall Islands.
[0:33] US officials suspect the Soviets
[0:35] violated the waters of the US friend,
[0:38] sneaked in, snatched, and made off with
[0:40] the nose cone. CBS News Defense
[0:42] Department correspondent David Martin
[0:44] and reporter producer Howard Rosenberg
[0:46] have been investigating this story for
[0:48] weeks and have this exclusive report.
[0:52] The Pentagon is investigating the loss
[0:54] of a flight data recorder from a test
[0:56] shot of an intercontinental ballistic
[0:57] missile. And officials here acknowledge
[0:59] one possibility is that the Soviets
[1:01] stole it. July 7th, 1987, a Minute Man
[1:06] ICBM blasts off from California on a
[1:09] routine test shot like this over the
[1:11] Pacific. In its nose, a dummy warhead
[1:13] and a package of instruments to collect
[1:15] test data. The data is recorded on board
[1:18] instead of beamed back to Earth, so it
[1:20] can't be intercepted by a Soviet
[1:22] intelligence twer, which on this day is
[1:24] located about 50 mi from the missile's
[1:26] target, the lagoon at Quadrilene. 30
[1:28] minutes later, the warhead splashes
[1:30] down, breaking into pieces. Radar
[1:32] pinpoints the splashdown point within 50
[1:34] to 100 ft. The next morning, 400 lb of
[1:37] debris are reco