And the technology that Putin was trying to steal had been supplied surreptitiously by the Reagan/Thatcher people in the form of pre-loaded computers that had software the Russians needed for their Finlandize-Europe-by-gas-pipeline project and for the missile projects needed to counter the more fantastic implications of “Star Wars”. The software was engineered to give subtly wrong answers and the pipeline(and missile programs) spent huge amounts of money going off on dead end tangents. The funniest part of the whole thing was years later the NYT blaring indignation that we had won by cheating, and it didn’t count like we should re-establish the USSR as penance.
Do you know the name of that operation? It is a very interesting story.
Whoah! I did not know that!