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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Flashes in the Dark explores one of the least known aspects of Cold War military history: the secret aerial missions carried out in Argentina by the United States Air Force. Drawing on over twenty years of research across archives, photographs, and eyewitness accounts, the book reveals how, under the guise of meteorological and scientific work, the USAF conducted operations on Argentine soil and in its airspace-often without the knowledge of local authorities. The study traces these activities to the birth of the USAF in 1947 and the creation of its Air Force Office of Atomic Energy (AFOAT-1), responsible for detecting foreign nuclear tests through the Atomic Energy Detection System (AEDS). This organisation-later the Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC)-achieved its first major success in identifying the Soviet Union's secret atomic test of 1949. Using aircraft such as the Douglas C-47, C-54, and WB-29, US operations expanded globally, including from Argentina, where missions sought uranium deposits and monitored local nuclear experiments. Conducted under the highest security classifications, these flights left virtually no official trace, even within the Argentine Air Force. By assembling scattered evidence and newly unearthed documents, Flashes in the Dark lifts the veil on decades of concealed US military activity in Latin America and offers a foundation for future research into the region's Cold War intelligence landscape. AUTHOR: Gustavo Maron was born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1971 into a family of Lebanese immigrants. In 1998, he graduated as a lawyer from the Law School of the National University of Cuyo, Argentina. Since then, he has worked as an advisor to various aeronautical associations, companies and organisations. In parallel, he teaches Aeronautical Law at various Argentine universities and other educational establishments in the country. To date, he has published more than two hundred aircraft investigations on different aspects of Argentine Civil Aviation. This is his first work published by Helion. 152 b/w photos, 12 colour profiles, 2 maps, 2 diagrams, 1 table This book tells the story of the secret operations on nuclear espionage operations carried out from Argentina by the US Air Force between 1946 and 1974 with the aim of identifying the country's uranium deposits and the development of the Argentine nuclear program, as well as the growth of the nuclear arsenal of the Soviet Union, China and France. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. On July 18, 1981, a Canadair CL-44D Swingtail cargo plane from the Argentine company Transporte Aereo Rioplatense, mysteriously disappeared over the Soviet Republic of Armenia while on a flight between Tehran (Iran) and Larnaca (Cyprus). Four days later, on July 22, 1981, the Vremya television news broadcast in Moscow, the information provided by the TASS news agency, according to which, a plane of unidentified origin had entered Soviet territory in the vicinity of the Armenian city of Yerevan. According to the official TASS agency, the plane had ignored calls from air traffic control services, while carrying out dangerous manoeuvres, by virtue of which, it had ended up colliding with another Soviet aircraft, crashed and burned. With this cryptic information began one of the most impressive and least known stories of Argentine civil aviation: the shooting down of the freighter registered LV-JTN by the Soviet Air Defence. The episode, severely covered up by Moscow, was part of a much larger geopolitical scenario: the clandestine transport of American weapons that was taking place between Tel Aviv and Tehran by virtue of a secret agreement between the Iranian and Israeli governments, at a time when it weighed heavily on Iran, a total embargo on arms sales ordered by the United States after the hostage-taking that occurred in 1979 at the US Embassy in Tehran. The Islamic Republic of Iran, formed as a result of the Islamic Revolution that had broken out that same year, was an avowed enemy of Israel, whom it considered a mere Zionist regime to be eliminated. The Iranian religious leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, did not recognise the State of Israel, which he referred to simply as 'little Satan'. However, the Iranians desperately needed supplies of US weapons because a few months earlier, on 22 September 1980, they had been invaded from Iraq by Saddam Hussein's forces, starting the Persian Gulf War. The Israelis saw the possibility of carrying out a sideline business and thus, embarked on a supply operation that was as secret as it was clandestine. The intelligence services of the Soviet Union soon became aware of the secret arms trafficking and decided to divert one of the compromised planes to force it to land in their territory with the aim of exposing the operation and all the protagonists involved. By interfering with radio communications and manipulating aids to navigation, the KGB managed to divert the plane from its route, making it fly within the Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia. But the Sukhoi Su-15TM fighters dispatched to intercept it, failed in their mission so the control centre ordered the downing of the Argentine plane before it left Armenian airspace. The Soviet conspiracy of silence began after discovering that its Air Defence had destroyed an Argentine-flagged civil plane, with an Argentine crew, which was flying empty. The Moscow government's cover-up was soon joined by that of Israel, Iran, the United States and Argentina, whose governments sought to keep the issue of arms trafficking the closest of secrets. 104 b/w photos, 5 colour photos, 2 maps, 9 colour profiles This book tells the story of the shooting down of an Argentine cargo plane by the Soviet Air Defence in Armenia, on July 18, 1981. The episode exposed the secret traffic of American weapons between Israel and Iran during the Persian Gulf War against Iraq. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Flashes in the Dark explores one of the least known aspects of Cold War military history: the secret aerial missions carried out in Argentina by the United States Air Force. Leveraging over twenty years of research across archives, photographs, and eyewitness accounts, the series reveals how, under the guise of meteorological and scientific work, the USAF conducted clandestine operations on Argentine soil and in its airspace-often without the knowledge of local authorities. Flashes in the Dark Volume 3 concludes the story of the US nuclear espionage operations in Argentina. It opens with the exposure of the true purpose of the US detachment at El Plumerillo Airport through the persistent efforts of Argentine journalists over 1968, whose original reporting is reproduced within for the first time in the English language. Undeterred by this development, US operations only intensified as French nuclear testing in the South Pacific restarted in 1970, heralding the arrival of Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F and Boeing WC-135B nuclear reconnaissance aircraft in unprecedented numbers to sift through the fallout. However, as Volume 3 details, the political situation in Argentina and the wider region was fast deteriorating. Before long, the US mission in Argentina would become embroiled not just in nuclear espionage, but in the struggle for control of the country, and the dramatic events of the 1973 coup in neighbouring Chile. Drawing on extensive research, author Gustavo Maron pieces together the notes of an extraordinary symphony performed for fifteen years in Argentina-under conditions of total secrecy. AUTHOR: Gustavo Maron was born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1971 into a family of Lebanese immigrants. In 1998, he graduated as a lawyer from the Law School of the National University of Cuyo, Argentina. Since then, he has worked as an advisor to various aeronautical associations, companies and organisations. In parallel, he teaches Aeronautical Law at various Argentine universities and other educational establishments in the country. To date, he has published more than two hundred aircraft investigations on different aspects of Argentine Civil Aviation. This is his first work published by Helion. 93 b/w photos, 12 colour profiles, 4 colour maps Flashes in the Dark explores one of the least known aspects of Cold War military history: the secret aerial missions carried out in Argentina by the United States Air Force. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Flashes in the Dark explores one of the least known aspects of Cold War military history: the secret aerial missions carried out in Argentina by the United States Air Force. Leveraging over twenty years of research across archives, photographs, and eyewitness accounts, the series reveals how, under the guise of meteorological and scientific work, the USAF conducted clandestine operations on Argentine soil and in its airspace-often without the knowledge of local authorities. Flashes in the Dark Volume 2 continues the story of the US nuclear espionage operations mounted from Argentina, beginning with the intensification of Lockheed WU-2A and Martin NB-57B missions from Ezeiza Airport, outside Buenos Aires, in 1960. Tasked with capturing samples of radioactive particles from the atmosphere, these reconnaissance aircraft provided vital intelligence on the progress of French and Soviet nuclear tests. Later, Volume 2 charts the establishment of a permanent US reconnaissance detachment at El Plumerillo Airport in Mendoza in 1966, heralding the arrival of the highly modified Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F to Argentina. Nicknamed 'tired ducks' by onlooking Argentine Air Force personnel, these remarkable aircraft and their crews flew constant missions surveilling the French tests in the South Pacific, braving fallout and the hazards of stratospheric flying. Along the way, Volume 2 also covers the wider regional context of the Cold War, including Argentina's involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as the peculiar events of the Transtage incident. Drawing on extensive research, author Gustavo Maron pieces together the notes of an extraordinary symphony performed for fifteen years in Argentina-without anyone being able to hear it. AUTHOR: Gustavo Maron was born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1971 into a family of Lebanese immigrants. In 1998, he graduated as a lawyer from the Law School of the National University of Cuyo, Argentina. Since then, he has worked as an advisor to various aeronautical associations, companies and organisations. In parallel, he teaches Aeronautical Law at various Argentine universities and other educational establishments in the country. To date, he has published more than two hundred aircraft investigations on different aspects of Argentine Civil Aviation. This is his first work published by Helion. 113 b/w photos, 12 colour profiles, 2 colour maps This book tells the story of the secret operations on nuclear espionage operations carried out from Argentina by the US Air Force between 1946 and 1974 with the aim of identifying the country's uranium deposits and the development of the Argentine nuclear program, as well as the growth of the nuclear arsenal of the Soviet Union, China and France. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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