Soviet computer device siezed on return to US

Federal agents in California seized militarily important computer equipment that was illegally exported to the Soviet Union through Britain and returned to the United States for repairs, the Commerce Department said.

The Soviet Union asked Comtal, a subsidiary of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, to upgrade and modify a $70,000 computerized image-processing system designed for enhancing and interpreting photographs taken from aircraft and satellites.

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