Except the soviets ended up building a very different craft. Buran was visually similar but radically different in basic layout (no main engines on orbiter etc). The Soviets didnt fall for all the bad intelligence they were fed.
And there is a flip side. Bomber gaps, missile gaps, the MiG-25 fiasco, that time the CIA double-counted bombers because the russians painted different tail numbers on either side ... America gobbled up its share of false intelligence too.
And there is a flip side. Bomber gaps, missile gaps, the MiG-25 fiasco, that time the CIA double-counted bombers because the russians painted different tail numbers on either side ... America gobbled up its share of false intelligence too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Wester...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqKE5xCogH0