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It's backwards.
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The Black World is a codename for
a family of covert surveillance satellites.

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Conceived by the Defense Department,
manufactured and maintained by RTX,

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and used primarily by a company
you may have heard of

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- in Langley, Virginia.
- Central Intelligence.

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Circling the earth with their cameras,
heat sensors, microwave antennas,

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they've significantly lightened
the workload of human spies.

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When Brezhnev chats with his mistress
over his supposedly clean phone,

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the birds listen in.
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When he walks his dog in the park,
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the birds take a picture of it
pissing on the shrubbery.

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When he tests his latest warhead
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underground somewhere in Siberia
and claims he hasn't,

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the birds know he's lying.
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You'll be working
in the system's nerve centre.

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A communications vault linking RTX
and our associates in Virginia

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with tracking stations
all around the world.

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Alaska, Guam, Iceland, Australia,
to name a few.

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You'll be dealing with correspondence
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that relates to the activities
of the satellites.

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Correspondence that you will find
designated top secret.

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It's protected by sophisticated
cryptographic equipment

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developed by
the National Security Agency.

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You're not to discuss
any aspect of your job

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with non-cleared RTX employees.
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This is as far as I can go.

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