In October 1967, three Soviet KGB agents sneaked into a NATO Air Base in West Germany. Surprisingly, they managed to steal a 3-meter-long, 160-pound advanced Sidewinder missile!
In January 1967, the KGB headquarters received information that the West German Air Base would be equipped with the latest F-4E multi-role fighter, which had a combat radius of more than 1200 kilometers and could fly to the western part of the Soviet Union, which made the Soviet Union feel a huge threat and wanted to build one to study.
The KGB learned through intelligence that the management of Celle Air Base was quite lax and lax, and that it was possible to steal even an F-4E fighter, a task assigned to three KGB agents.
In the spring of 1967, the KGB received a secret report from West German agents that Zeller Air Base in West Germany was about to be equipped with the latest U.S. F-4E fighter, the latest model of the Phantom fighter, and the most advanced equipment.
Since no one defected, the KGB planned to steal a Ghost Fighter, which was not impossible, from West Germany to East Germany, just a Berlin Wall, as long as it could be successfully lifted off, it would take less than a few minutes to reach the sky over East Germany, which was not much different from going to the Soviet Union.
So this plan was implemented to the agent who provided the news, he was Lanminger, a native of West Germany, a second-generation architect who usually loved to eat, drink, and seek excitement, and the more adventurous things he liked to do.
In 1963, When Lampinger went to Moscow to do business, he was successfully captured by the KGB's beautiful agent "Swallow", and spent a few days in Moscow in his dream life, and finally the KGB people asked him if he would like to do one of the most exciting and adventurous jobs - agents.
Having both the demand and the money to take, Lampinger quickly agreed, and did a very good job, And Lampinger successfully plotted against a West German pilot and a locksmith.
Lan Minger knew these two in the bar, the locksmith because of the bad life, although there is a lock opening skill, but every day by the wife scolded to make less money, in the bar to borrow wine to dispel sorrow, it happens that the bar storage room was locked back that day, and the key is still inside, either smash the lock or smash the door, dilemma, the locksmith said to the bar owner, if I can open the lock, can you exempt you from today's wine money?
So the locksmith opened the door lock effortlessly, and Lanminger saw the locksmith's skills with his own eyes, so he deliberately co-opted him, and after some conversation, the locksmith became the housekeeper in The Lanminger Mansion.
In early 1967, When Lampinger came to the bar again, he heard a drunken man bragging about him, and when he learned that he was a pilot at Zeller Air Force Base, Lampinger approached him again.
The pilot was also a restless man, like Lampinger who liked to drive fast cars and seek excitement, but had limited salary and could only play occasionally. Lan Minger threw himself into his favor, and the two became good friends.
During the conversation between the two, the pilot inadvertently mentioned the air base, laughing that the base's security measures were so simple that you could go in and drive away a fighter jet on any given day.
The speaker has no intention, the listener intends. After reporting to the KGB headquarters, Lampinger received instructions and large sums of money for the rebellion, as well as "swallows". Soon, under the precision strike, the pilot was successfully repulsed and became an agent of the KGB.
In April 1967, the KGB put the trio to the test, first getting the pilots a pass for Zeller Air Base, then having the locksmith enter the base with the pass, and with the lock-unlocking skills, he got a navigator, and finally Lanminger sent it to Moscow by courier.
In May, a team of three stole a directional navigator from an industrial show. The two jobs were very satisfactory to the Soviet headquarters, so when the latest Ghost fighter was about to be reloaded, the headquarters decided to let them steal the fighter.
The three-person team is also rubbing their hands, and they have long wanted to come to a single big one. However, the Ghost Fighter will not arrive at the air base until the end of the year, and the wait for several months is very boiling.
Soon the pilots came with good news that the base had just delivered a batch of American Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, and Lanminger believed that the Sidewinder missiles the Soviet Union had obtained from China 10 years ago and had little value.
The pilot told Lanminger that this was the latest model, that the infrared guidance probe had been upgraded, that the hit rate had been greatly improved, and that if the guidance probe could be stolen, then the Soviet headquarters would certainly be happy.
There is also an important message that the base will carry out a rat extermination operation on October 7th, and all patrol dogs will be kept in cages, which saves the operation a lot of trouble. So Lan Minger did not have time to contact the headquarters, and the three-man team prepared for action privately.
After careful planning, at night, the locksmith cut a large hole in the barbed wire in the remote area of the base and sneaked in, and the pilot and the two pilots opened the warehouse door, the locksmith unlocked the technology, but could not disassemble the missile guidance probe, and had no choice but to carry the entire missile out through the barbed wire hole.
After closing the warehouse door and restoring the barbed wire hole, the two found the Lanminger who was receiving, facing the 3-meter-long, 80-kilogram missile, Lanminger could only break the rear window glass of the car, and a large section of the missile was exposed outside the car, covering it with a blanket as a cover.
After a long journey of more than 300 kilometers, the three found a small hotel, dismantled the missiles in the hotel, and packed them in two boxes.
Then the pilot returned to the base, the locksmith returned to The Lampinger's house, and everything was fine. Lampinger arrived at the airport with the missile, checked in two boxes, and flew with him to Moscow.
After Lanminger arrived in Moscow, he found that two boxes of missiles had not been sent over, and he actually returned to the West German airport with a love of excitement, found that the original documents were filled in incorrectly, and the airport staff did not let them go.
In this way, the latest model of the American Sidewinder AIM-9E air-to-air missile was sent to Moscow with such ease!
Not long after the sidewinder was stolen, the base found a hole in the barbed wire, and then found out that the missile was stolen, and all three people were caught, and they lost the opportunity to steal the aircraft missile together!
