It was 50 years ago, ancient history. The protagonists are now in the 80s and what damage would they inflict upon the security interests of the country by discussing those events? If researchers made approaches through squadron associations they might even get a few replies.

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Ancient history it may be; but, from what I can gather ,those who signed the official secrets act are expected to take the information to their graves. This is in stark contrast to the USA where details of all Early Cold War Overflights were made available in 2003 and, at the time of declassification, a symposium was held in Washington and many of the original participants took part. From that moment on all were free to discuss the flights and the part they had played.
I have had replies about 543 Squadron activities from Association members but they have been reluctant to talk about their more secret (at the time) flights. They cannot be blamed for this. It is the fault of the government of the day and the agencies responsible for the declassification.
Of course the USA does have a Freedom of Information Act!

I was at that show and have some poor quality 35mm slides and some 8mm movie footage somewhere.

I will have a look through my collection but don’t hold out too many hopes of finding anything usable.

Thanks,
That would certainly be great if you managed to come across some. Will you put some here if you find them?

Thanks for the input so far folks. But I am going to confine myself to the two RAF units which would include the Syrian visit, but not the aircraft in Syrian service.
If I expand too much within the word space permitted I think I’ll not do sufficient justice to the subject.