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Originally Posted by Stealhead
Well Turkey was very valuable to NATO(truly the US) during the Cold War because it allowed us to fly all manner of ELINT and other types of near border penetration observation missions against the USSR .I know for sure of this my step father flew on many of these missions and other times he listened in on Soviet networks from bases in Turkey.
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Not to mention some submarine recon of the area where the Soviets had all their major shipyards courtesy of the Turkish Navy..