Story of Gus Weiss
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This is a long and fascinating article about Gus Weiss, who masterminded a long campaign to feed technical disinformation to the Soviet Union, which may or may not have caused a massive pipeline explosion somewhere in Siberia in the 1980s, if in fact there even was a massive pipeline explosion somewhere in Siberia in the 1980s.
Lots of information about the origins of US export controls laws and sabotage operations.
Tags: deception, disinformation, history of security, Russia, sabotage, tradecraft
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