CIA File of the Day
The Kidnapping of the Lunik
A Studies in Intelligence article by Sydney Wesley Finer, published in volume 11, winter 1967. It recounts how, a number of years earlier, the Soviet Union toured a Soviet upper-stage space vehicle, and how that exhibition became the setting for an operation against the Lunik.
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