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  • Oh, that big 1982 Siberian explosion?

    02/03/2004 9:13:42 PM PST · by Valin · 83 replies · 9,333+ views
    WASHINGTON - 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...
  • AT THE ABYSS by Thomas C. Reed

    07/11/2004 8:32:45 AM PDT · by genefromjersey · 10 replies · 857+ views
    07/11/04 | vanity
    Much has been said about the late President Ronald Reagan:how he stood up to the Soviets,etc. (You've all read the words.)What was not generally known was that he did quite a bit more. "At the Abyss" is an account of the Cold War years-from Harry Truman to George Bush,Sr.-as told by Thomas C. Reed:an Air Force officer who actually helped design our nuclear deterrent,and who went on to become Secretary of the Air Force. One of thepoints he makes is that Ronald Reagan became aware of just how desperate the Russians' financial condition was.They were spending 50 to 70% of...
  • Soviets Burned By CIA Hackers?

    03/28/2004 5:48:30 PM PST · by freedom44 · 7 replies · 411+ views
    Godlike Productions ^ | 3/28/04 | Godlike Productions
    The author of a new book detailing a plan to use a Trojan horse embedded in stolen software to wage economic war against the Soviet Union fired back Thursday at charges the book´s revelations are "rubbish." Thomas C. Reed, a former secretary of the Air Force and special assistant to President Reagan, detailed the stunning story in At the Abyss: An Insider´s History of the Cold War. According to Reed, the Reagan administration faced a choice in 1981 when it "gained access to a KGB agent in their technical intelligence directorate" and discovered that Soviet theft of American technology had...
  • The 'Cold' hard truth

    03/12/2004 1:58:39 AM PST · by JohnHuang2 · 107+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, March 12, 2004 | by William Rusher
    The 'Cold' hard truth Posted: March 11, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Books about the Cold War are a dime a dozen. It would be nice to read them all, or at least all of the good ones, because the Cold War was the defining event of the last half of the 20th century. Its outcome determined mankind's basic direction for centuries to come. Whether you are old enough to remember all of the Cold War, or just parts of it, or whether you have only heard about it, you need to understand the basic story. Although we can't...
  • Reagan Approved Plan to Sabotage Soviets

    02/27/2004 12:47:11 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 46 replies · 335+ views
    The New York Times ^ | February 27, 2004 | David E. Hoffman reviews "At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War"
    Thomas C. Reed, a former Air Force secretary who was serving in the National Security Council at the time, describes the episode in "At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War," to be published next month by Ballantine Books.............."In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, the pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines, and valves was programmed to go haywire, after a decent interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds,"...