How to Steal a MiG, Part 2/2: The Men in Plaid | CIA

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 35 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 Two, CIA Officer Jim Fees' daughter, Paula, and aviation expert Steve Davies guide Sophia di Martino through the final stages of a daring desert heist - and explain the true significance of this exceptional Cold War coup. 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	The 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.
0:21.0	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	I delivered Klanda Steinley the Pentagon's most desperately sought Soviet weapon.
0:43.0	The first meek 23 that the US ever possessed.
0:46.0	They told me it was impossible, but I never gave up.
0:49.0	I'm Sophia DiMartino and this is True Spies from Spicecape Studios.
0:55.0	How to steal a MIG. Part 2. The Men in Cloud.
1:02.0	In the last episode of True Spies, we followed CIA officer Jim Fees on his mission to procure a coveted Russian MIG 23 fighter jet from the Egyptian Army.
1:17.0	The United States had its own swing in fighters. It had the F-11, had the F-14.
1:27.0	It should have understood why the Russians had developed that aeroplane with variable geometry.
1:32.0	It should have had some basic understanding as to the size of the engine, the fact that it was built for ice-beef flight versus turning flight.
1:40.0	But they didn't. So it was embarrassing and it was also revolutionary.
1:44.0	If you haven't already, be sure to listen to Part 1.
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