The Story Of How The CIA Stole & Returned A Soviet Spacecraft Before Being Noticed 

2:30 actually....3:04 is when he comes back.

I was expecting him to turn into Max Headroom. .. .

Soviet agent? I thought those guys broke up.

dodopod Nope, look up the 1977 film Telefon . Russia / the USSR / Soviets play the long game.

Just a glitch in the Matrix

Look at this funny guy right here.

Better manners in them days😊

_"Whoa there, Johnson, what do you think you're doing? Didn't your mother teach you to take off your shoes before entering someone elses spacecraft?_ "Come on, you really think this matt-" _"Respecting property rights is what separates us from those dang commies!"_ "Jenkins... we literally just stol-" _"BORROWED! Overnight! With a heavy heart! For the sake of peace in the Free World!"_ "FINE, I'll take them off, geez... Don't start another of your high-falutin' lectures, just hand me the measuring tape, will ya?"

@@nibblrrr7124 Would like to see this in an anime. Or movie. 🤣

I heard (dont quote me on this) that Korolev inmediatly took a liking of Gagarin when he removed his shoes before entering Vostok 1

Adjustable wrench?

Sheldon Robertson still funny

Actually, an American crescent wrench can be converted to fit metric bolts with very little difficulty.

I like to image they sent one agent to the local Mexican hardware shop and he had a hilarious time not being understood, or something.

I doubt, that metric bolts is that big of a problem for bolts bigger than 10mm or so. At least, other way around it is bolt that is bigger than 6mm and smaller than 7mm (1/16 inch ?) that get you in the metric trouble. :D

Or telling to KGB that Soviet rocket engines would be sold on Ebay.

@@cogoid Or mounted on American Atlas V rockets.

@@cogoid or that their engines would be used as core boosters for American rockets

@@cogoid KGB: ¿what is this Yee-bay¿

@@kylesanders8276 Popular science literature even from 1950s has predicted a great deal of modern Internet quite accurately. But it was mostly about remote access to information, automatic translation, search engines. I am not too familiar with the subject, but I do not recall much talk about Ebay, or even Amazon, for that matter -- even though mail-order already existed for a long time... Here is an interesting example, showing what people were able to snatch after the fall of the USSR. Video: _"Isayev S2.720 Rocket Engine"_

. **** . o o . . ". .O.

Soviet elite wasn't really a trusty ones in the past and I'm wondering did they send to mexico a real hardware or a little "adjusted" one ? They must expected some CIA involvement in this.

I wonder if someone got a free Christmas trip to some snowy place in the Soviet Union for 'forgetting to attach those plugs'....

The Russians used to say “They (the soviets) pretended to pay us so we pretended to work”. But getting caught out was seriously bad news. If anyone had spotted the break-in Nobody would have admitted to it.

It would have been a thank you, thank you, please thank you note.

Space heist!

I saw that movie recently. I had to think of Starship with their reusable chomper style spacecraft that steals a Mercury capsule and a funny looking Russian ship.

"Artistic License"

The CIA can only have so many adventures. After all, they only live once.

@@houdin654jeff Nice 007 reference hehe

Maybe doing crossword puzzles? Probably counting his money.

They sent in a clean up team after.😜

🙄

yeah you know they fucking axed him

@Steven Strain I'm sure you're right. The CIA would have had to have gotten permission from the Chilean government when they overthrew them or the Iranian government when they overthrew *them* or the Cuban government when they tried to overthrow them or the Pakistani government when we sent in the military to capture and kill one of their residents or the American citizens who were experimented on when they were conducting mind control experiments in Project MK Ultra. The CIA would never do anything underhanded. Upstanding organization! By the way, since you're having understanding what "CIA handlers" means in the context of entertaining a truck driver in a hotel, it was very likely to have involved the use of hired female operatives willing to engage with the driver in an intimate way.

Well, other than the missing connectors.

True.

@@KiraSlith and the truck driver.

Not a problem, the CIA used their agents from Area 51

Quite. They wanted to know the true range of this thing.

True. Didn't the US do the same? It's been awhile but seem to remember reading that when some of the older US ICBMs were replaced they were used to launch satellites. Which makes good sense. Why waste a perfectly good rocket.

@@bigblue6917 Oh yeah, many civil rockets of the past are based off of IRBMs or ICBMs. From the top of my head I can think of these IRBM/ICBM turned space launchers: US: Thor (Delta) Atlas Titan I/II Peacekeeper (Minotaur) USSR/Russia: R-7 R-36 (Tsyklon) UR-100N (Rokot) China: DF-4/5 (Long March 1-4)

Exactly! It even says ICBM in the document.

@@bigblue6917 The only difference between an ICBM and orbital calls rocket in those days was whether the payload was a warhead or a third stage/satellite.

Theyre also responsible for over throwing elections abroad and at home. Of course the FBI does assist.

Not all presidents, only those proven to be career ending, deadly ones.

Shush! Nonsense

It's called "spying", no matter how cool Hollywood tries to picture it.

And in the case of Kennedy...

Probably sitting among the nick knacks in the background.

A disturbing image of a Scott-Caillou hybrid just cursed me for eternity

involuntarily, but yes.

Subliminal messaging

On your opponents scone = WIN

Don't scream....

I had the same image, like that James Bond film where the villain was sneaking up behind spacecraft in orbit and stealing them

I had the same image, like that James Bond film where the villain was sneaking up behind spacecraft in orbit and stealing them

@@cydonianmystery5193 You Only Live Twice

The Shuttle had indeed the capability for such a mission (the concept was heavily influenced by the military), however it is not public known they ever used it to grab a non US satellite, and of course it was built much later than '59

Really - getting disillusioned with remake & sequel scripts.

@@HuntingTarg Midway and Ford vs Ferrari were the only two movies I bothered to watch this year. Looking forward to 1917.

Definitely. I'm actually surprised it's not been done already.

UK's ..Whitworth?

That's a good example of a standard that has persisted just because it works very well, even if technically obsolete.

I’m p sure that in this timeframe most countries (Canada at least) still used the imperial system iirc

@@robertlumsden2423 no offense, but you're probably an american who has been misled. Only USA and two others use imperial, metric is the commonplace thing

@@mariasirona1622 Nah he's right. In Canada we have a bastard system of measurements. While officially Canada is metric, imperial is used a lot in daily life (thanks to the Brits and close proximity to US). Everyone just get used to knowing two systems and know how do a quick approximate conversion in their head. Distance is usually measured in km as expected, our gas stations also charge by the liters. Everyone knows their height in ft'in" and in cm, they know their weight in lbs and kg. For science and academics, metric is always used, but when it comes to construction it is all imperial. If you talk to contractors in m, cm and mm they will laugh at you before asking you to convert all that to inches and feet. Our building supplies just follows the US, we use 1/2" or 5/8" thick drywall, our studs are framed 16" on center and all of our pipes and fittings are measured in inches.

@Jason Buford sounds illegal. We should arrest the CIA.

It called stealing.

@Jason Buford I bet you're really fun and interesting at parties.

@@MooKyTig I mean, he isn't entirely wrong.

@@LostieTrekieTechie Okay, sock puppet.

... and their message still sending via the Soviet internet.

@@deep.space.12 Internet is based of off American inventions. Nearly all of the communication standards even today are American.

In cyrillic . . & we are none the wiser to this day

......бл*ть......

@@weasle2904 . . . aha, and which "American Inventions" and "American Communication Standards" do you mean ?

Wow seems like not too long ago it was in the tens of thousands. Congrats Scott! (if you read this) Subbed in HS I'm 23 now. My very first ever channel to sub to.

This channel should absolutely have a million subs or more. It's one of the best channels on RU-vid.

I legit thought this channel had 2 or 3 milllion subs

zapfanzapfan I’m sure some workers/subcontractor were shouted at for “losing” it. Reminds me. Russian joke about some particularly untalented worker, who was locked in an empty room with 2 metal balls, and managed to lose one and break another one!😹

I will take the budget intro with the space-age techno outro. Mo more 'cosmic bumper cars' plz.

Sharps Dark - done on a phone when Scott’s bag went missing in Spain (I think).

soviet spec intro; cheap and it works

@@NapoleonGelignite This was the London version after they left Spain. The X-wing is what makes me recall it that way.

@@NapoleonGelignite yeah, they got robbed

Did you watch my video about that?

@@scottmanley didnt know there was one?? guess I will be!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YDs8rz7pRLQ.html

Practice makes prefect.

Oooh, now I gotta check back on Vintage Space...

Imagine if the Soviets pulled such a stunt, all hell would break lose

The Soviets would never have done such a thing 😉

@@robinwells8879 Because they didn't need to.

I think that's from "Rogue One".

Yes, at least some people got awards and privileges. But the detailed history of its origins is quite elusive -- even though it arguably is one of the most significant rocket engines in the whole history!

Japan has it standards. It was probably much cleaner than during take off.

@@mortisCZ as funny as the mental image of someone meticulously cleaning each part of the jet and palletising the parts, I’d think it would be better for them to have sent them the instructions for assembly as well.

The truck driver probably knew something happened, but didn't know what exactly. And since he probably got some money from it, he wasn't inclined to share it.

@@HalNordmann Ah, the video doesn't suggest they paid him anything. Interesting idea though.

In Mexico? Tequila, lots of it.

He probably woke up in the truck a couple blocks from the train station with all the paperwork saying the job was done, a 3/4 empty bottle of mezcal and other "souvenirs" of of a good time to lead him to believe everything was ok, and no reason to raise a flag.

Ladies of the night?

@@kevgermany yup

they probably paid him off either with money or by not shooting him

Prob just just kidnapped and threatened him

Modern major General It was Mexico. I’m sure he knew how to keep his mouth shut for the right price.

Hookers and blow. What else could "Spent the night in a hotel room with CIA 'handlers'" possibly mean?

"won the deal with ussr to move planes from exhibition to exhibition" silly idea that USSR would be using private company to do that... Soviet military pilots would just fly it from one place to another and not leave it unprotected for a minute... " in 1 night, they dismantle 1 tupolev 104 engine, took pictures of every parts and reassembled it." you can not learn much in one night when dealing with something as compicated and it would be crazy hard to even take it apart in that short time so no time to study anything/test it... on top of that USSR engines(like Mikulin AM-3 that was in Tu-104) was simply crapy and that is why USSR Tupolev-95 was using Kuznetsov NK-12 engines with contra-rotating propellers... and Russia is using it for exsctly that reason to this day... That book is clearly full of stories invented by this guy to make this book interesting and he have no understanding of technical aspects of stuff like that or any understanding how communistic countries work/operate... USSR or any other country behind Iron curtain would not use private company to move plane from one place to another even inside Russia... its just silly idea and solid prove that this story was fabricated.

Cia...

3:03 and there... what editing program do you use, how does that even happen?

​@@eboy146 r e p t o i d s ! or freemasons. maybe both?

And one truck driver

Don't bring your usual phone on flights. Or at least turn on encryption, disable biometric unlocking, and turn it off before going through security. ;)