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The United States and balloon warfare
RICHARD SAVILLE looks back at how Washington used balloons during the cold war to spread propaganda and spy on the Soviet Union and eastern bloc
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ON FEBRUARY 3 1956 astonished residents in Lewisham, Pinner and Farnborough were greeted with the news that several US propaganda balloons had crash-landed locally.
Appearing in the local press and the publication World News, the report brought the cold war to our very doorsteps, quite literally.
This was not the first landings of such large balloons, normally used to carry propaganda over eastern Europe, regularly over Hungary and Czechoslovakia and as far as the Soviet Union.
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