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Failed CIA mission

The Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission was a joint operation by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) to spy on the nuclear developments being conducted in the Xinjiang Province of China.

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The agencies cooperated in October 1965 to install a nuclear-poweredremote sensing station on the peak of Nanda Devi in the UttarakhandGarhwal Himalayas.^[1]

The mission failed after the plutonium powered Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator was lost in the mountains because of a strong snowstorm.^[2]

The mission

In 1965, the Pentagon and the CIA were worried about the Chinese Nuclear Developments.

The Vietnam War was ramping up and the United States had no intelligence data to counter any Chinese threat. The Chinese conducted nuclear tests in secretive facilities.^[3]

Two years prior, a top US air force officer led a successful expedition to the summit of Mount Ev