"This tactic actually comes from our own playbook,'' said Thomas C. Reed, the former secretary of the Air Force under President Gerald R. Ford and the author of "At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War.'' In 1982, the C.I.A. hacked into the software that controlled Soviet natural gas pipelines, causing vital pumps, turbines and valves to go haywire, he explained. The result, Mr. Reed said, was the largest nonnuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space and a major blow to Soviet sales of natural gas to Western Europe. I thought they had always claimed this wasn't hacking, but a "poison
Nomen Nescio wrote: pill" in proprietary control software the soviets had stolen (and nah nah nanah nah)? Or have there been *two* massive russian pipeline explosions and I missed one?