CIA STARGATE release
CIA-RDP96-00789R000300760006-0
Opens with: batlike jet was rolled out of a top-secret
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CURRENTS Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R000300760006-0 -- DOUG VENUEZ FOR USNOW9 200 STEALTY IN THE SUN. When the hooded, batlike jet was rolled out of a top-secret hangar in California last week, the world stared for the fiApprovedeFot Release 2006/08/08 &CIA-RDP96 00789R0 030076000640 test flights will begin bomber. And the $500 million plane,". to make the bomber nearly invisible to radar. Lest anyone be tempted closer, looking as sinister as Darth Vader, stared right back. Yet it did not shed all of its mystery. Guests were kept 200 feet away, screened from seeing the B-2's rear and guard dogs watched menacingly as a band played. The unveiling, after eight years of rising public interest, had become soon and will be conducted in daylight, Stealth could be hidden no longer.