**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

The Cold War was a conflict defined by the battle for intelligence. During the Cold War, intelligence services relentlessly pursued aviation secrets by espionage, defections, and recovering wreckage to close the gap in advanced warplanes and related technology. And nowhere was this intelligence war more keenly fought than in the sphere of military aviation. Gaining information on the enemy’s latest warplanes and aviation-related hardware was a prime intelligence objective for both sides throughout the titanic ideological struggle that dominated the second half of the 20th century.