Stealth aircraft damaged over Kiev 1980 ?

[DNKY62]

Just trawling on the Interweb as you do when isolating and I came upon this article:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB443/docs/area51_54.PDF
I've been looking but have found no further evidence

It sounds like to me that the military were playing a game of bluff and claiming that Stealth overflights were being undertaken regularly over Kiev and the Dnepropetrovsk area of Ukraine

Has anyone got anything to add here ?

 

[Grey Havoc]

I'd suspect disinformation, possibly even bait in a leak investigation of the period.

 

[flateric]

 

[Mr London 24/7]

Just trawling on the Interweb as you do when isolating and I came upon this article:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB443/docs/area51_54.PDF
I've been looking but have found no further evidence

It sounds like to me that the military were playing a game of bluff and claiming that Stealth overflights were being undertaken regularly over Kiev and the Dnepropetrovsk area of Ukraine

Has anyone got anything to add here ?

It’s not a real memo - the correct context is given in the source page:

Document 54: "Stealth," August 29, 1980. Top Secret.

Source: Record Group 59, PPS Records of Anthony Lake, 1977-1981, August 1980, National Archives and Records Administration.

This memo, found in the Anthony Lake's State Department file for the 1977-1981 years, is an attempt at stealth humor.

Source:

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-...0-29/area-51-file-secret-aircraft-soviet-migs

 

[DNKY62]

Disinformation requires an element of truth and various types of "stealthy" aircraft were being used at that time.

I very much doubt that the US would risk losing a Top Secret aircraft and there was speculation that some 50 of the elusive F19's were based @ Tonopah and some flew from the UK

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/12/us/top-secret-plane-is-said-to-crash.html

 

[DNKY62]

 

[Aubi]

US stealth aircraft crash-landed on a Soviet runway, and the US don't want to tell the Soviets which runway it was. In one of the most populated parts of the USSR. I'm suuuuuure this is true.

 

[Michel Van]

Just trawling on the Interweb as you do when isolating and I came upon this article:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB443/docs/area51_54.PDF

This is a Top Secret Memo ?!
Comparing that with CIA file and NRO memos released
and the Story US do Stealth mission from Ukraine Part of USSR, WITHOUT intervention of Red Army, KGB ?!
I say

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Its a joke. It's clearly a joke written down in a memo, the joke being that stealth aircraft are so hard to detect the Soviets won't even be able to find it if it lands on one of their airfields. This kind of thing turns up from time to time in archives, its the equivalent of a funny email to your co-workers today.

Noone can seriously have thought for a moment this was real, surely? Simply reading it should suffice to dispel that idea.