Viktor Belenko
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title:
Viktor Belenko
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Viktor Ivanovich Belenko was a Russian-born American aerospace engineer and Soviet pilot who defected in 1976 to the West while flying his MiG-25 "Foxbat" jet interceptor and landed in Hakodate, Japan. George H. W. Bush, the Director of Central Intelligence at the time, called the opportunity to examine the plane up close an "intelligence bonanza" for the West. Belenko later became a U.S. aerospace engineer.
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Soviet pilot who defected to the West (1947–2023)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko
date created:
2003-12-05T00:37:04Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T04:44:21Z
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