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The Ukrainian links of America’s legendary SR-71 spy plane

The Ukrainian links of America’s legendary SR-71 spy plane

The Soviet Union helped its fiercest enemy create the Blackbird, which would then go on to spy on the USSR itself. We dug through CIA documents to find evidence that the metal came from Ukraine.

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