60 Minutes For Sunday May 10 2009

The soldiers they protect call them "eyes in the sky." The military calls them "unmanned aerial vehicles." And the enemy they destroy probably won’t get a chance to call them anything, because from two miles up, their targets can neither hear nor see what hit them. Leading off Sunday night is a story about what is increasingly becoming the leading edge in America’s Air Force: drone aircraft operated from thousands of miles away by pilots using computers and joysticks. 60 Minutes and Lara Logan received special permission to talk to the pilots, an actual demonstration and access to classified footage of the drone’s lethal missions over the skies of Afghanistan.

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Then Steve Kroft examines one of the most mysterious cases in the annals of modern espionage: the curious life and death of a man both the Israelis and the Egyptians claim as their greatest spy. Who was Ashraf Marwan really working for and why did he fall five stories from his London terrace? The death is being investigated as a murder, but, says former reporter and author Howard Blum, "It’s in a lot of people’s interest?that the world never knows?who killed Ashraf Marwan."

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Batting third is Bill James, who doesn’t hit or catch a baseball, but whose unique statistical analysis has helped the Boston Red Sox win two World Championships say the team’s owners. James has made baseball executives look at the old ballgame and its players in a new light. "When Larry [Lucchino] and I first came into the business, the general manager relied fairly much on gut instincts?we’ve taken a much more systematic approach, which really comes from Bill," Red Sox partner Tom Werner tells correspondent Morley Safer.

Watch Safer’s reporter’s notebook.

These stories, and Andy Rooney comments on commencements, on this Sunday’s 60 Minutes, May 10 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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