We also arranged for the ruskies to purchase sabotaged pipeline and oil drilling parts.
Reagan hit them in multiple ways, and hit them hard.
Yes, that's the “real program” I mentioned, but I never heard or read that this program caused the death of 160 Russian submariners. That's the “historical license” with the facts that the recent episode of “The Americans” took. I'm not criticizing the show for doing so, but the truth back then was often much more interesting than most fictionalized accounts.