Behind the Bamboo Curtain | CIA
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The CIA's Plan to Pick Up an Agent
As the plane approaches the pickup site, the CIA officers are on the lookout for a pre-agreed all clear. Guns open fire on both sides of what is essentially kind of a goalie that they're flying through to make the pickup. It turns out that Chinese military and militia have staked out positions systematically on all sides. The pilots barely have time to register what's happening. And the pilot and co-pilot, they're killed either by the gunfire or by the crash, probably the gunfire itself.
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