- A former US National Security council member said that
the CIA, backed by President Ronald Reagan, aimed to bring down the Russian
economy with dodgy software.
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- Thomas Reed, a former Air Force secretary says in his
new book "At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War that
the plan resulted in the blowing up of a Siberian natural gas pipeline.
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- According to Reed, in 1982 the United States was attempting
to bugger up the Soviet economy by stopping Western Europe from importing
gas from them. The Russians had set up a spy network, ironically code-named
the Line X network, that was stealing software from the US and putting
it to work in Mother Russia.
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- A KGB insider, who was later executed for spying, revealed
a list of technology that the Russians wanted and the CIA palmed off the
flawed software to the Soviets.
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- Reed said: "The pipeline software that was to run
the pumps, turbines, and valves was programmed to go haywire, after a decent
interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures
far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds."
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- The result was a huge explosion that could be seen from
space and although there were no casualties there was a huge amount of
economic damage. By the time the Soviets realised they had been stealing
bogus technology, they had no way of knowing which equipment was good and
which was bogus. Reed, said the United States and its NATO allies later
"rolled up the entire Line X collection network, both in the U.S.
and overseas."
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- Weiss said "the heart of Soviet technology collection
crumbled and would not recover." µ
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- © 2004 Breakthrough Publishing Ltd.
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