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Project Dark Gene was an aerial reconnaissance program run by the Central Intelligence Agency and Imperial Iranian Air Force from bases inside Iran against the Soviet Union. The program was run in conjunction with Project Ibex, which was a more traditional ELINT mission. The first operations were during the 1960s with support of Iran's former Shah. Dedicated aircraft, air-bases, and U.S.

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  • Project Dark Gene was an aerial reconnaissance program run by the Central Intelligence Agency and Imperial Iranian Air Force from bases inside Iran against the Soviet Union. The program was run in conjunction with Project Ibex, which was a more traditional ELINT mission. The first operations were during the 1960s with support of Iran's former Shah. Dedicated aircraft, air-bases, and U.S.
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  • Project Dark Gene
causalties
  • * 1 RF-4C, 1 RF-5B, 2 CH-47 confirmed
  • * In total, 6 aircraft possibly lost
  • USA & Iran
  • * IIAF Major Shokouhnia and USAF Colonel John Saunders captured and later released
combatant
  • Imperial State of Iran
commander
is part of military conflict
place of military conflict
result
  • Assumed discovery of useable intelligence, then superseded and made redundant by the Iranian Revolution.
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