Pentagon to search crash site of failed 1952 spy mission

Tuesday, July 9, 2002

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is preparing to send a search team to northeastern China in hopes of recovering the remains of two American pilots believed to have been buried 50 years ago where their unmarked plane crash-landed during a failed spy mission for the CIA.

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