Wobble's down to earth nature, intelligence, and sense of humour, makes entertaining reading.
Ordinary members of the public can now call up images of Chinese nuclear submarines via Google Earth, but intelligence agencies around the world have had access to far more detailed satellite images for years.
"I refuse to send off to another world, as the first example of earth's intelligence, a man who wants to go and set up a McDonalds franchise," Paul Schrader is said to have told Steven Spielberg, during the making of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The SCC upgrade will give the corporation greater access to polar orbiting satellites providing valuable earth observation intelligence to its clients.
A "mission specialist" and his young sidekick, Vollmer (one of DeLillo's comically intimidating nerds, like Heinrich in "White Noise"), are up in Tomahawk II, orbiting the earth and gathering intelligence, tricked out with their suction clogs, modal keys, sense frequencers, and quantum burns.
University scholars conduct research in such areas as marine biology, fracture mechanics, industrial policy, artificial intelligence, pharmacoeconomics, earth sciences, archaeology and anthropology, suicide, and families.
Donald Rumsfeld, the American secretary of defence, said this week that "any country on this earth with an active intelligence programme knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction".
In a letter to visitors to his Web site (www.johnclilly.com), he spoke of a time when all killing of whales and dolphins would cease -- "not from a law being passed, but from each human understanding innately that these are ancient, sentient earth residents, with tremendous intelligence and enormous life force.
It is also available online as Chapter 20: "21st Century Counterintelligence: Evaluating the Health of the Nation" in the new book INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability (Earth Intelligence Network, 2010).
Specifically, Wormdal provides evidence that downloaded images of the earth are used for intelligence and military activities.
