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Paul Lashmar on the American and British spy flights during the Cold War

Paul Lashmar, Producer of BBC Timewatch programme Spies in the Sky on: the intelligence targets the spy flights were looking for; the Signals Intelligence spy flights that tracked Soviet defensive responses; why the Soviets found it difficult to shoot down the spy flights; how the British joined the spy flight programme; and the Soviet reaction to the spy flights. ... read more
October 24, 2012

Paul Lashmar on an early spy flight the Soviets almost shot down

Paul Lashmar, Producer of BBC Timewatch programme Spies in the Sky on: the spy flight that a Soviet Mig managed to shoot; how the CIA came to run its own spy flight programme; the British U2 pilots; the current generation of spy aircraft; and Curtis Le May's belief in a preventative war. ... read more
October 24, 2012

Paul Lashmar on the efforts to trace spy flight airmen who were shot down

Paul Lashmar, Producer of BBC Timewatch programme Spies in the Sky on: Eisenhower's offer to the Soviets of an Open Skies policy; the reasons why it was refused; why the Soviets could not do spy flights; and the efforts to trace missing airmen who were shot down. ... read more
October 24, 2012
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