Posted on 10/04/2022 6:57:49 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
This was originally posted at the Washington Post on February 27, 2004. By David Hoffman
In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a memoir by a Reagan White House official.
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Thomas C. Reed, a former Air Force secretary who was serving in the National Security Council at the time, describes the episode in “At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War,” published by Ballantine Books. Reed writes that the pipeline explosion was just one example of “cold-eyed economic warfare” against the Soviet Union that the CIA carried out under Director William J. Casey during the final years of the Cold War.
At the time, the United States was attempting to block Western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas. There were also signs that the Soviets were trying to steal a wide variety of Western technology.
“In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, 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,” Reed writes.
“The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space,”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
So if my neighbor steals my truck that I removed the brakes on, and he takes a dive off a cliff - it’s somehow my fault? Get a grip pal. Steal something and it backfires, that’s on you.
You’re so far off-base, you must be getting a paycheck from Vlad.
Apples and oranges.
To a simpleton, that would be accurate.
“You do realize that the US committed an act of international sabotage, rightly an act of international terrorism, in the early 1980s on Soviet soil,”
How would you have suggested Reagan win the Cold War? Or would you have advised him to surrender to Soviet domination?
I suppose you probably wish he had. Seeing how much you want Putin’s neo-Stalinism to take over.
*shakeshead*
Okie dokie.
The US is a Republic.
So you actually think the US was wrong in the former action, in context of the cold war? How old are you?
Suggest you read CDR Salamander’s latest post - ‘Want a Nuke Wargame? I’ve Got One For You’. Sounds accurate to me. Let’s hear your rebuttal.
That’s right. I had forgotten...I need to refresh my memory.
Russia brought some of the following up recently:
15 Oct 1983: NYT: NICARAGUA REPORTS AN ATTACK BY INSURGENTS ON MAJOR PORT
By Richard J. Meislin
The reported attack on Puerto Sandino, 44 miles northwest of here, came three days after the rebels from the United States-backed Nicaraguan Democratic Force launched an attack on another port city, Corinto, destroying extensive quantities of fuel...
Mr. Ortega said “commandos of terror from the Central Intelligence Agency” succeeded early this morning in damaging the oil pipeline in Puerto Sandino. The port had been damaged in an earlier attack, but was believed to have been repaired...
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/15/world/nicaragua-reports-an-attack-by-insurgents-on-major-port.html
... and then the genius Bush/Cheney crew came in and increased the price of oil in order “stabilize” the post-Soviet economies.
Gee, how’d that work out?
Excellent video. Watched the whole thing. I’ve never heard of the guy or his videos. Thanks.
You are clearly an insurrectionist extremist supporting the racist constitutional regime. I will leave it to others as to whether Putin is your paymaster.
bmp
Possibly. Google: “Hydrate Plugs”
The soviets committed industrial espionage on a sweeping scale. So presumably did/do we. In that world all is fair...I have no sympathy if a thief finds a poison pill in their ill-gotten gains.
But 9/11.... There the Russians have FBI advanced warning they ignored. Not to mention Boston bombing.
I leave it to others to evaluate if you’re an idiot.
I am being ironic, and succeeding. Ukraine is just part of a geo-strategic crisis caused by the fact that the US/EU/NATO and alliances hegemony of the world is at odds with geographic realities and the internal political interests of much of the rest of the world.
To counter that the US is claiming a moralistic pro-universal liberal democracy stand - our rules based global order. Again much of the world feels cheated by this system.
And the notion of American/WEF/globalist woke perverse moral leadership of the world is utterly laughable.
So, our world is coming undone and instead of transitioning to a new order where we can live and breath, we are struggling to maintain this one - with the deepstate evidently financed by the Ukrainian money laundry.
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