The Farewell Dossier (How the CIA blew up the Trans-Siberian pipeline with pirated software)

Damn Interesting ^ | 26 March 2007 | Alan Bellows

[neodad]

Bush’s Fault...

[AdamBomb]

Fascinating read

[SnakeDoctor]

Fascinating.

SnakeDoc

[tired1]

This was one of Reagan’s practical jokes.

What were the Sov’s going to do, complain that they stole toxic software?

[Lazamataz]

This was very good, very humorous reading. I bet the CIA guys crapped their pants with laughter when the fireball went up.

[alancarp]

Brilliant.

[massgopguy]

This was already in the book - Reagan’s Secret War. Ivan was ripping us off at every opportunity. It said the blast was the largest non nuclear explosion ever recorded. Beautiful.
“If God wanted the Russian in space, he’d have given them two eyebrows”. - me

[Leisler]

I doubt that story.

The Soviets were more than capable of blowing up their own stuff. Chernobyl, for instance.

What I wouldn’t doubt is the CIA taking credit.

[frithguild]

You busy-bodies have busied your last body.

[agere_contra]

Timely article, what with the advent of Stuxnet.

[Cheburashka]

Decade old news.

[brothers4thID]

And yet, decades old news sometimes needs to be repeated, for the erudition of the masses and the not-so-gentle prodding of our enemies.

[J Edgar]

I doubt that we have the competency to pull something like this off today, and certainly know that we do not have the policy intent to do something similar.
The Commies are inside our compound today!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Great band! Loved their Christmas album. Tragic. Was it pyrotechnics gone bad?

[petitfour]

I appreciate you posting this “old news” because I was but a child in 1982, and I have no memory of the pipeline explosion. The story made me think of the gasline explosion outside of San Francisco a few weeks ago. And then there’s the chatter from fed agencies about how there are rogue terrorists running around the country undetected. “We can absorb” a terrorist attack. Or so the president says.

[saint]

The documents also indicated that one of the Soviet Cosmonauts working on the joint Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft project was a KGB operative.

Gee, ya think? I'd be really surprised if only one cosmonaut was a spy.

[PetroniusMaximus]

So, you’re saying that if I have a pirated copy of Lotus 123, my toilet might just suddenly explode?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So, you’re saying that if I have a pirated copy of Lotus 123, my toilet might just suddenly explode?

Only if you pack it with dynamite first.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Awesomeness ping.