[aculeus]

Forgotten heroes.

[atlhobo]

Hi Im new here.

thanks

[StarCMC]

WOW! ping

[AndyJackson]

The CIA operatives ... were captured alive, imprisoned by China for two decades and released only after Washington acknowledged they were spies. The U.S. government initially told family members the men went down in the Sea of Japan on a routine flight to Tokyo, maintaining a cover story in order to keep a lid on the CIA's covert actions in China.

This is the CIA that predicted the collapse of Iran, the invasion of Afghanistan and the 9/11 bombings.

Although the Chinese shot the plane down and captured the agents - alive - the CIA thought they could keep a lid on the fact that they were conducting "clandestine" operations? I wonder if they signal each other with their Captain Marvel decoder rings too?

[OldFriend]

Other debris meaning the missile that shot the plane out of the sky?

[piasa]

This is what an uncle of mine used to do... first time I have ever seen a news article on the topic. He must have had some big brass ones. I'm glad he was never caught!

[CalifornianConservative]

Wonder if the Cambridge spies in British Secret Service, Philby and company, had anything to do with this shoot down?

I read that because of Burgess and McClean, much of our military strategy against China/ N.Korea was blown in the Korean War and Truman acted unwisely. (Truman never got it that there were Commies in our State Dept. as well as in Brit. Intel services, which had access to our CIA Intel.)

We sure did "lose" China that fateful day in 1949.