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Israel’s Bait-and-Switch: When the IAF Lured Soviet MiGs to Their Destruction
In 1970 the Israeli Air Force took a page from Colonel Robin Olds’ 1967 Vietnam War Operation Bolo, luring Soviet-flown MiG-21s into air combat and shooting down five.
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Failure to detect a long-running Abwehr counterintelligence operation cost the SOE numerous secrets—and lives.