How to Steal a MiG, Part 1: The Pyramid Scheme | CIA

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In the skies over Cairo, an unlit military transport plane makes a wary descent in to the city's international airport. Under cover of darkness, it's loaded with a precious consignment - an artefact that the USA has gone to great lengths to procure. Not a cursed relic, or a crystal skull - but a cutting-edge Russian fighter jet. In Part One, Sophia Di Martino flies cargo-class with the CIA's Jim Fees - the officer who stole a MiG-23 from under the nose of the Soviet Union in the late 1970s. To tell his story, we've enlisted Jim's only daughter, alongside historian and aviation expert Steve Davies. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Max Bower. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:02.0	Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.
0:06.0	This is True Spies.
0:09.0	The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:15.0	Week by week you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world we live in.
0:22.0	True Spies.
0:23.0	You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:27.0	What do they know?
0:29.0	What are their skills?
0:31.0	And what would you do in their position?
0:35.0	This is True Spies.
0:38.0	It flew through the dead of night.
0:40.0	Made all the usual communications that you would expect where the air traffic control.
0:44.0	But at some point as it approached Cairo, turned off its navigation lights,
0:49.0	stopped talking to air traffic control and then flew at low level down the Nile to a secret airbase.
0:55.0	I'm Sophia Di Martino and this is True Spies from Spicecape Studios.
1:02.0	How to steal a MIG, Part 1, the Pyramid Scheme.
1:12.0	Egypt, the late 1970s.
1:16.0	In the dark black stillness of a September evening,
1:20.0	a covert operation is underway.
1:24.0	An unidentified aircraft is flying low over Egyptian airspace.
1:30.0	The only clue to its presence is the distinct, shrill noise of the engines.
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