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by Jerry2 1863 days ago
>It's only a matter of time

According to some sources, it's been done before:

>CIA plot led to huge blast in Siberian gas pipeline

>Thomas Reed, a former US Air Force secretary who was in Ronald Reagan's National Security Council, discloses what he called just one example of the CIA's "cold-eyed economic warfare" against Moscow in a memoir to be published next month.

>Leaked extracts in yesterday's Washington Post describe how the operation caused "the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space" in the summer of 1982.

>Mr Reed writes that the software "was programmed to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...