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The Soviet Union Planned on Going to Mars, too

Steven Aftergood, in Secrecy News, the newsletter of the Federation of American Scientists (Feb. 13, 2004):

Life will be discovered on Mars, the CIA predicted. Unfortunately, it will be communist!