Damn Interesting: The Farewell Dossier
Great article at Damn Interesting about the intentional sabotage of a Soviet gas pipeline during the cold war.
'Rather than immediately arranging the deportation of the 200+ covert KGB agents named in the "Farewell" documents, CIA officials opted to ply their counter-intelligence trade. Perhaps the most useful data to fall out of Vetrov's leaked intelligence was a list of the technologies which Directorate T was seeking but had yet to acquire. Working in concert with the US Defense Department and the FBI, the CIA began to organize a large-scale conspiracy to plant deliberately defective information for the Line X operatives to stumble upon. Inaccurate-yet-convincing plans for stealth aircraft, space shuttles, machine parts, and chemicals were peppered throughout US industry. Over the following months the polluted intelligence found its way into Soviet manufacturing and military, causing inexplicable problems in tractor manufacturing, chemical production, and aircraft research among other things.'
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'Rather than immediately arranging the deportation of the 200+ covert KGB agents named in the "Farewell" documents, CIA officials opted to ply their counter-intelligence trade. Perhaps the most useful data to fall out of Vetrov's leaked intelligence was a list of the technologies which Directorate T was seeking but had yet to acquire. Working in concert with the US Defense Department and the FBI, the CIA began to organize a large-scale conspiracy to plant deliberately defective information for the Line X operatives to stumble upon. Inaccurate-yet-convincing plans for stealth aircraft, space shuttles, machine parts, and chemicals were peppered throughout US industry. Over the following months the polluted intelligence found its way into Soviet manufacturing and military, causing inexplicable problems in tractor manufacturing, chemical production, and aircraft research among other things.'
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