Word: zemlya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crew. Based in Britain, the plane, carrying a flock of cameras and a cabin full of electronic equipment, had sped north and east over Arctic waters on a mission that would have taken it into the Barents Sea 100 miles west of the Soviet island of Novaya Zemlya...
...fact that the RB-47E was part of the continued U.S. probing of Soviet radar and radio communications-a "ferreting" job similar to operations of heavily equipped Soviet "fishing trawlers" that cruise continually off the American coasts. The plane lost radio contact some 300 miles west of Novaya Zemlya-just about the time that U.S. monitors picked up evidence of a flurry of Soviet interceptor activity in the area...