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The Black Cat Squadron was a secret spying project run out of Taiwan during the 60s into the mid 70s. It was run by the CIA using ROCAF pilots under the cover of a weather research unit of the Taiwanese Air force.
Most of the missions were flown over China using a small fleet of just two U2 spy planes. The US would replace the planes whenever they were shot down or crashed.
I decided to mark the image as sensitive.
I didn't notice it until I was writing the image description, but this image could be seen as offensive. They (I assume CIA) choose to do the eyes in yellow and they made them slanted and squinted (or maybe those are just the pupils that are squinted) so it looks kind of like a caricature.
At the time in the 1960s, nobody even saw anything wrong with these types of caricatures of Asian people and they were common, but today those images are considered offensive.