> They had oil and diamonds And titanium, lots of which they inadvertently sold to CIA front-companies for use on the A-12 / SR-71. When NASA started to scrap

> They had oil and diamonds And titanium, lots of which they inadvertently sold to CIA front-companies for use on the A-12 / SR-71. When NASA started to scrap a warehouseful of 71 spares, that included many tons of Soviet titanium bar stock which the Air Force whisked off to Tinker AFB for future use.