The Soviet Union might have been poised to implode in 1989. But that didn’t stop the whiz-kids at the CIA from predicting that the Evil Empire would “likely” soon be painting the Red Planet, um, Red.
“We believe the Soviets are planning for a manned Mars landing mission some time after the year 2000,” reads the CIA’s then-secret analysis, now de-classified.
(via Secrecy News)
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