~;x During the flight from Moscow, the Ilyushin 11-76T liad encountered unexpected head winds, and so It was thirty minutes behind schedule when it landed at Amster- dam s Schiphol airport. It was directed at once by airport control to the freight section, where diplomats from the Soviet embassy were already waiting. Dutch intelligence had been advised earlier of the in- tended arrival from the filed flight plan, and so identifica- tion of the aircraft was the second message they received that day. A computer check upon that identification dis- closed the NATO interest~ A normal information request had been registered with all Allied intelligence services from the moment of the II.yushins first appearance at the Paris Air Show in 1971. A priority designation and the code name Candid had come later, when it was learned that, as well as being in commercial service with Aeroflot, the planes had become the standard transport vehicle for the Soviet armed forces, with more than a hundred attach- ed to frontline squadrons~ 13
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