Operation Gravity (1 July 1969) was a covert CIA military operation that was carried out during the Cold War. The elite Black Ops special forces team was sent to assault a Soviet missile base at Akadyr in the Kazakh SSR, and they managed to shoot their way past several Spetsnaz soldiers and sabotage a test launch of a rocket. The operation was one of many American secret operations carried out against the Soviet missile program during the 1960s, and it briefly disrupted the Soviet rocket program.
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