[Cincinatus' Wife]

Paul Schweizer's books Victory (1994) and Reagan's War (2002) are very good on this subject.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

CORRECTION: This is a Washington Post story.

[Qwinn]

Democrats are outraged.

Qwinn

[Bonaparte]

Gotta love the Gipper. :-)

[sonofatpatcher2]

Way to go, Ronnie! God Bless You!

[longtermmemmory]

Where is the graphic of kerry saying communism is an overrated threat.

[Fledermaus]

I once was asked why Reagan was allowing more technology sold to the Soviet Union. I said, "we probably tainted the software"!

I knew I was right.

Just like how John Ashcroft now taints the evidence we get on certain terrorist...to watch them, follow them, listen in on them...to they day they die if necessary.

Too bad liberals like Kerry have tried to suppress our ability to do these nasty things for decades.

[WaterDragon]

Good for Reagan!

[Wumpus Hunter]

I like how we "let" them STEAL the stuff to srcew themselves with! There was a thread about a month ago about how we even designed faulty IC chips specifically for them to steal.

Contrast this with the rat approach - selling them whatever they want and sticking the money in your pocket.

[Atlantic Friend]

As an added tidbit of information, Farewell was the codename of a Soviet official working for the French intelligence service, the DGSE. What Farewell told his controllers was that the Soviet Union was becoming expert at obtaining Western technology that could be used militarily by buying high-tech civilian goods that used the same electronic components.

French President François Mitterrand told President Reagan during a G-7 meeting in 1981 IIRC, and then Farewell was a shared sourced of information for both French and US intelligence services. I seem to remember that Farewell went out of business in the late 80s.

[Cincinatus]

"And here you thought that the collapse of that dang ol' Soviet Union was just a coincidence, huh?"

[atomicpossum]

Do a web search for the 'Farewell Dossier' for more info, there's even someon the CIA website...

[RGSpincich]

I don't want to know, and don't want others to know, how this stuff happens. Just let it happen. LLSS

[Paul Ross]

BUMP!

This is what we need to be doing to China and India, but instead it looks like it will be the other way around.

Here is a 2005 Report by the Defense Science Board on High Performance Microchip Supply

I am willing to bet that neither Condoleeza Rice (State Dept.) nor Stephan Hadley (Natl Security Advisor) or Dan Bartlett (Pres. Counselor)ever read it.