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Still assessing what intel China gathered from spy balloon: US
Updated On: 05 April, 2023 08:41 AM IST | Washington | Agencies
The balloon had entered the United States from Alaska on January 28 and crossed through several states over various sensitive military sites, including Montana where the US stores some of its nuclear assets, before it was shot down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina on February 4
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The United States has said it is still doing an assessment of what exact intelligence information China was able to gather from its spy balloon that flew over sensitive American military sites in February. The comments from the Pentagon came after a media report said the Chinese spy balloon gathered information about some of the US military sites through electronic signals.
“As of right now, we’re still doing an assessment of what exactly the intel was that China was able to gather but we do know that the steps that we took provided little additive value for what they’ve been able to collect from satellites before,” Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters at a news conference.
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