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![In the '80s, the CIA wanted NASA to bring the Cold War to the moon](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/11/29/FlagMoon.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
In the ‘80s, the CIA wanted NASA to bring the Cold War to the moon
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JPat Brown
Memos unearthed in the Central Intelligence Agency archives show that at the height of Reagan’s renewed Cold War, the CIA’s Deputy Director - future Secretary of Defense Robert Gates - suggested that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration counter Soviet ambitions of a manned mission to Mars by establishing a permanent base on the moon.