title: Brixmis : The Untold Exploits of Britain's Most Daring Cold War Spy Mission
author:  Tony Geraghty 
description: This text presents the secrets of how British intelligence officers working undercover as liaison officers in East Germany stole advanced Soviet equipment and penetrated top-secret training areas. For 40 years the men from all three armed services, the SAS and the Foreign Office conducted an intelligence war against the massive Soviet military strength.
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  ![](../Images/Firefox.jpg)  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### Firefox
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Craig Thomas
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE ULTIMATE HIJACK Six hundred miles east of Moscow, the deadliest aeroplane
  in the world is being made ready for its final weapon trials. It is the Mig-31
  - NATO codename ‘Firefox’- and with its 4,000-plus m.p.h. speeds, impenetrable
  antiradar screen and thought-controlled weaponssystem it poses the greatest
  threat to the global balance of military power since the atomic bomb.
  
  
  
  
  
  There is no way that the West’s technology can catch up with the Firefox in
  time. Unless…
  
  
  
  
  
  In desperation, a joint British Intelligence / CIA team devises the most
  daring undercover operation since the Second World War.
  
  
  
  
  
  The best military pilot in the West must be smuggled into the Soviet Union and
  onto the closely guarded base where the ultimate warplane awaits its final
  proving tests.
  
  
  
  
  
  His mission: hijack the Firefox…
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  ##### Copyright
  
  
  
  
  
  FIREFOX is one of the most grip