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| | Navy Crew Should Have Been Able to Destroy Tapes, Some Equipment |
 | | By flying within Chinese radar range, the EP-3E's equipment can "read" the Chinese radar's range capability, determine its strengths and weaknesses, and track transmissions from the radar facility to its command post, and on to a central operations center. |
 | | Crew members are routinely trained to destroy the classified material they work with, and nearly 16 of the 24 on board were involved with the gathering and analysis of data. |
 | | Pike, Streetly and other analysts emphasized that the software, passwords, manuals and recorded data, all of which are the easiest to erase and destroy, would have had the highest priority in any destruction scenario. |
| www.fas.org /sgp/news/2001/04/ct040501.html (847 words) |
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