A triple-barreled electrically-fired silent pistols was put on display at a press conference in West Germany in 1954. The pistol was issued to Nikolai Khokhlov, one of the Soviet MVD’s most experienced and capable agents.

(1/7) He was tasked to arrange the targeted killing of Gregory Okolovich, a senior member of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists. The Solidarists were a group of Russian emigres working to subvert the Soviet government from abroad by establishing an agent network in country and smuggling anti-communist literature across the border with balloons, among other plans.

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Exhausted Navy aviators returned home on a chartered flight after nearly two weeks of captivity on a Chinese island in April 2001 during the Hainan Island Incident.  

(1/8) The 24 crew members were on board an EP-3E Aries II signals intelligence aircraft on a routine mission over international waters when they were intercepted by a pair of Shenyang J-8 fighters from the Peoples Liberation Army Air Force.

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Dominique Borella was a French soldier and mercenary who fought for years in conflict zones worldwide.

(1/7) Alexis François Dominique Borella was born in 1932 and served in the French army from 1950 – 1956. He fought in Indochina in the early 1950s where he earned the Médaille Militaire, roughly equivalent to the American Silver Star. He later served in Algeria as a Captain with the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment.

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