The CIA covertly transferred computer technology -- again via a Canadian company -- containing malfunctions, including software, that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline in mid-1982, former air force secretary Thomas Reed revealed in his memoirs At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War (2004).
The US was trying to stop western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas. (Hey, isn't that what the US is still trying to do, even after it destroyed the Soviet Union?) A KGB insider gained access to Russian purchase orders and the CIA slipped in the flawed software.
I hope the Bolivarians have backbone. They have to crack down on the traitors. It's Cuba post-Bay-of-Pigs time. The white elite vs the brown socialists. Fighting the empire is not for the weak at heart. What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
* The decline of the British empire reached its end in the 1950s with the Suez crisis, Eisenhower stopped cold a UK-led invasion of Egypt by threatening to dump Washington's huge holdings of pound-sterling bonds and cripple the British financial system. At the same time, Britain's remaining colonies were achieving independence. The attempt by the U.S. to undo China's Huawei communications giant in 2018 has been compared to this period in British decline. China could sell its hoard of US Treasurys, creating a dollar crisis.
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