Until now most of the media's focus has been on the China balloons. Yet to many military historians, it is the involvement of that other symbol of a bygone time, the U-2, that is far more telling when it comes to espionage.
In the 1960s and 1970s, at least five of them were shot down while on surveillance missions over China.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was responsible for all of America's U-2s at the time the planes were shot down.
Adding to the mystery was that the planes were being flown not by US pilots nor under a US flag, but by pilots from Taiwan who, in a striking parallel to today's balloon saga, claimed to be involved in a weather research initiative. What a story!
ust a "U2-Ballon Saga" thought. [Brad Lendon and Wayne Chang, CNN]
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