The head of one of America’s secret spy agencies recently disclosed that China is seeking to control the South China Sea through the covert development of military facilities on thousands of acres of reclaimed islands.
Robert Cardillo, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), told a recent US congressional hearing that spy satellites and aircraft have been closely monitoring the island-building program by Beijing.
The NGA, is a little known Pentagon spy service whose motto is "Know the earth, show the way, understand the world." It provides imagery intelligence based on spy satellites and aircraft and explains what the pictures show. The agency works closely with another spy agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, that builds and operates intelligence satellites.
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