Archive for 2/28/2004

Go CIA!

Feb 28th

Posted by David Veksler in [...]

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I can’t say how true this is, but it’s certainly a great story:

In January 1982, President Ronald 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, according to a new memoir by a Reagan White House official.

Anti-China Protest in Taiwan

Feb 28th

Posted by David Veksler in [...]

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Wow:

More than 2.5 million people joined hands to form a 500-kilometre (310-mile) human chain stretching the length of Taiwan in a huge anti-China protest ahead of the island’s presidential elections next month, organisers said.