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History Neural Networks (cont) (general history w\o CIA)
1980 seems to be the jumping point to working neural network solutions
https://www.rctn.org/bruno/public/papers/Fukushima1980.pdf
Biol. Cybernetics 36, 193 202 (1980)
Neocognitron: A Self-organizing Neural Network Model
for a Mechanism of Pattern Recognition
Unaffected by Shift in Position
Kunihiko Fukushima
NHK Broadcasting Science Research Laboratories, Kinuta, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/neural-networks/History/history1.html
The first multilayered network was developed in 1975, an unsupervised network.
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/neural-networks/History/history2.html
Also in 1982, there was a joint US-Japan conference on Cooperative/Competitive Neural Networks. Japan announced a new Fifth Generation effort on neural networks, and US papers generated worry that the US could be left behind in the field. (Fifth generation computing involves artificial intelligence. First generation used switches and wires, second generation used the transister, third state used solid-state technology like integrated circuits and higher level programming languages, and the fourth generation is code generators.) As a result, there was more funding and thus more research in the field.
You would have to assume, that at some level in the late 70s - 80s, our government was deep into neural networks and at the same time keeping a close eye on the world and their progress.
Was trying to get more CIA connections but...
CIA.gov search is down again, I wonder why GINA...