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Lessons from failed Cold War spy mission in China
CIA grapples with a 1952 botched covert flight into China that cost two pilots their lives and left two young operatives Downey and Fecteau imprisoned for decades. The piece traces misjudgments in Third Force, capture impacts, and later declassification fueling a teachable CIA retrospective.
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China
Washington
CIA
al-Qaida
John T. Downey
New Britain
Conn
Richard G. Fecteau
Lynn
Mass
U.S
Downey
Fecteau
Robert C. Snoddy
Roseburg
Ore
Norman A. Schwartz
Louisville
Langley
U.s.-China
Beijing
Manchuria
Mao Zedong
James Lilley
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Lilley
Nicholas Dusmovie
Donald Gregg
Gregg
Changbai Mountains
Sandau
Mukden
Pacific
Saipan
Jack
Korea
Japan
Army
Snoddy and Schwartz
Gerald R. Ford
Richard Nixon
Harvard
Boston University
Snoddy
Schwartz
Civil Air Transport
East Asia
Pentagon
Snoddy’s. Schwartz
Dujmovic