Newsfront

April, 1991

Spy in the skyHonolulu--Operation Wipeout, a joint-agency antidrug operation, decimated about 90 percent of Hawaii's marijuana crop this past summer, said the state's attorney general, Warren Price. Price attributed crop detection to "space-age intelligence-gathering and photo-identification methods." Because the Pentagon was involved in a highly classified part of the operation, some experts suspect that military satellites were used. In addition, new helicopter-mounted nozzles, devel...