Obama to Share Missile Defense Secrets With Russia?

BigPeace.com ^ | 1/4/12 | Joel B. Pollak

[Texas Fossil]

He knows he’s going to lose. I’m afraid we ain’t seen nothing yet.. He’s going for it

BUMP!

[riverdawg]

” ... it was Ronnie Reagan (AKA “GOD” in some precincts) who first offered to share ABM specs with the Russkis, ...”

As I wrote in an earlier post, this was a negotiation tactic to appease our European “allies” and induce them to support our R&D on SDI. Reagan had no intention of giving useful technical data to the Soviets. In fact, to the contrary, there was an active and very successful disinformation program during the Reagan administration that leaked faulty engineering specs to the Soviets for everything from gas turbines to oil-drilling equipment. This is all well-documented in many books, one of my favorites being Peter Schweizer’s “Victory”.

[Plummz]

I dunno, I don’t think he likes Russia, Putin is too anti-communist for Obama.

It’s more likely the White House would share that information with the Chinese. (Or maybe Israel or NATO...) Russia doesn’t seem very likely.

[cunning_fish]

SDI was a bluff, there were no actual specs to pass. If there were, Reds could have it as fast as it were first tested.

[riverdawg]

“SDI was a bluff, there were no actual specs to pass.”

That's my point. But the Soviets weren't certain of that at the time, and subsequently folded their cards in response to the apparent threat. The Reagan administration waged an active and extremely successful disinformation program with regards to many types of critical technologies that were of interest to the Soviet military and industrial sectors. Many of the technical specs that were stolen or bought by the Soviets were bogus, the result of a deliberate plan to pass flawed (or, in the case of SDI, made-up) blueprints and documents to them. This program cost the Soviets tens of billions of dollars and yielded them nothing of value in return.