U.S. Navy
Feb. 7, 2023
Peter Bergen writes on the long, strange history of spy balloons for CNN.
Shooting down China's balloon was akin to my 11-year-old son finally popping the toy balloon he had been batting around the house all week. And it reminded me that when my father, Tom Bergen, was a lieutenant in the US Air Force in the mid-1950s, he worked on a program to help send balloons into Soviet airspace.
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