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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Perhaps the weirdest case in the KGB's history?and one of its dizziest triumphs???occurred in 1967, when three men stole a Sidewinder missile from a supposedly well-guarded NATO base at Zell and drove 300 miles along the autobahn to Krefeld with the 9½-ft. rocket sticking out a window. When their leader, Manfred Ramminger, inquired at the Düsseldorf airport about the best way to get a shipment to Moscow, KLM suggested air freight and Lufthansa assured him that nobody at the German customs office would bother about the contents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Spies: Foot Soldiers in an Endless War | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

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