The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) lost a plutonium generator in the Himalayas in 1965 during a covert operation to spy on China. The newspaper reported this news on December 14 New York Times.
According to information provided by the Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov, this operation was organized after China's first nuclear test in 1964. American and Indian climbers selected by the CIA will install signal blocking equipment on the top of Nanda Devi, including the SNAP-19C mobile radioactive fuel generator.
The expedition almost reached its goal, but due to worsening weather, the group was forced to quickly descend. According to the decision of the MS captain, Kohli's equipment was hidden on an ice cliff.
When the climbers returned in 1966, the generator containing the plutonium isotope could not be found. His whereabouts remain unknown to this day.
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