April 19, 2004
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"At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War" by Thomas Reed, a member of Ronald Reagan's National Security Council, reveals that Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline. Reed writes that the pipeline explosion was carried out "in order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy."
-Counterpunch
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