Posted on 11/28/2011 8:38:45 AM PST by jhpigott
'Huge explosion' heard in Iranian city Isfahan, Fars news agency reports - @BBCWorld
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Cable t.v. explains it all.
Big Bang Theory...Three Stooges...Two and a Half Men...So You Think You Can Dance...Dancing With the Stars...Heaven Can Wait.
Lots of mulitary bases there
More excellent munitions maintenance and storage by the Rev Guard ...allu akhbar
Actually it is the Israeli version of ‘Cyber Monday’!
Google Translator is our friend.
——the third time is enemy action.-—
By my count this is at least 5 perhaps 6
Stuxnet, Missie underground storage, second virus, 4 nuc top dogs, Teheran missile explosion,
Looks like FARS has pulled the pic and the story ...
I thought that it was doings that transpired...
Israeli media picking up on the report -
WHAT HAPPEN?
That might’ve been fun to see. It interests me to know this occurred during the Soviet reign. How’d they see it from space? Somebody happen to be looking? Missile launch detection satellite?
SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOMB
Any indicators of increased activity/alert level on the part of Iran’s proxies - Hezbollah and Hamas - after this incident??
It would seem to me that any hint of Israeli action in this explosion would draw that kind of retaliation first...
A friend asked me yesterday if I thought Israel was going to attack Iran.
I told him I doubted it; they’ve got so many other ways of doing things, like computer viruses and killing individual Iranian scientists, etc. They can initiate a whole string of work site accidents that can keep the Iranians grounded for years.
Intelligence shortcomings, as we see, have a thousand fathers; secret intelligence triumphs are orphans. Here is the unremarked story of “the Farewell dossier”: how a CIA campaign of computer sabotage resulting in a huge explosion in Siberia — all engineered by a mild-mannered economist named Gus Weiss — helped us win the Cold War.
Weiss worked down the hall from me in the Nixon administration. In early 1974, he wrote a report on Soviet advances in technology through purchasing and copying that led the beleaguered president — detente notwithstanding — to place restrictions on the export of computers and software to the Soviet Union.
Seven years later, we learned how the KGB responded. I was writing a series of hard-line columns denouncing the financial backing being given Moscow by Germany and Britain for a major natural gas pipeline from Siberia to Europe. That project would give control of European energy supplies to the Communists, as well as generate $8 billion a year to support Soviet computer and satellite research.
President Francois Mitterrand of France also opposed the gas pipeline. He took President Reagan aside at a conference in Ottawa on July 19, 1981, to reveal that France had recruited a key KGB officer in Moscow Center.
Col. Vladimir Vetrov provided what French intelligence called the Farewell dossier. It contained documents from the KGB Technology Directorate showing how the Soviets were systematically stealing — or secretly buying through third parties — the radar, machine tools and semiconductors to keep the Russians nearly competitive with U.S. military-industrial strength through the ‘70s. In effect, the United States was in an arms race with itself.
Reagan passed this on to William J. Casey, his director of central intelligence, now remembered only for the Iran-contra fiasco. Casey called in Weiss, then working with Thomas C. Reed on the staff of the National Security Council. After studying the list of hundreds of Soviet agents and purchasers (including one cosmonaut) assigned to this penetration in the United States and Japan, Weiss counseled against deportation.
Instead, according to Reed — a former Air Force secretary whose fascinating Cold War book, At the Abyss, will be published by Random House in March — Weiss said: “Why not help the Soviets with their shopping? Now that we know what they want, we can help them get it.” The catch: Computer chips would be designed to pass Soviet quality tests and then to fail in operation.
In our complex disinformation scheme, deliberately flawed designs for stealth technology and space defense sent Russian scientists down paths that wasted time and money.
The technology topping the Soviets’ wish list was for computer control systems to automate the operation of the new trans-Siberian gas pipeline. When we turned down their overt purchase order, the KGB sent a covert agent into a Canadian company to steal the software; tipped off by Farewell, we added what geeks call a Trojan horse to the pirated product.
“The pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire,” writes Reed, “to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds. The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space.”
Our Norad monitors feared a nuclear detonation, but satellites that would have picked up its electromagnetic pulse were silent. That mystified many in the White House, but “Gus Weiss came down the hall to tell his fellow NSC staffers not to worry. It took him another 20 years to tell me why.”
Farewell stayed secret because the blast in June 1982, estimated at three kilotons, took place in the Siberian wilderness, with no casualties known. Nor was the red-faced KGB about to complain publicly about being tricked by bogus technology. But all the software it had stolen for years was suddenly suspect, which stopped or delayed the work of thousands of worried Russian technicians and scientists.
Vetrov was caught and executed in 1983. A year later, Bill Casey ordered the KGB collection network rolled up, closing the Farewell dossier. Gus Weiss died from a fall a few months ago. Now is a time to remember that sometimes our spooks get it right in a big way.
Not surprised. In this modern age, news reports...even in countries with heavily-controlled state media...can be posted and reported before “higher authorities” can ‘edit’ the story to make the government out in the best light. Looks like that happened here.
What do you suppose the punishment for the poor sap who posted the story is going to be? Hand chopped off? Public whipping? Beheaded?
Back in the early `70s the DIA was monitoring a large Soviet rocket launch. It detonated on the launch pad and visiting dignitaries, high-ranking military, etc. were a little too close to the action. For several months Soviet big bugs were reported as dying from traffic accidents, illness, old age, etc.
Don't forget the dark cloud under that silver lining.
Maxine Waters will be ranking democrat in the Finance Committee.
Famous Last Words: “I wonder what this button does.”
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