What the records say
- When
- Oct 1965
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 30.37° N, 79.97° E
- Description
- failed joint CIA–IB mission
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
India–United States espionage on Nanda Devi
Failed CIA mission
India–United States espionage on Nanda Devi was a series of attempts by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) to spy on ballistic missile testing being conducted at Lop Nur in Xinjiang, China.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission by Central Intelligence Agency”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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