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TIL in the 1960s. The CIA created several fake cover-up companies to purchase Titanium from the Soviet Union. Titanium being a crucial element in the production of SR-71 Blackbirds. Subsequently helping Lockheed Martin’s Secret Black Project called “Skunk Works”. The SR-71 served from 1964 to 1998.

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