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Old Soviet Caches of Explosives Are Still Hidden in the USA
From Popular Mechanics, an article by Jim Wilson (link found in Free Republic).... In reprisal for the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, Nikita Khrushchev had ordered the KGB to place America in the crosshairs of a sabotage campaign. Over the next 20 years, KGB agents would take advantage of the thousands of miles of unguarded Canadian and Mexican borders to bury caches of high explosives throughout the United States. On Moscow's command, agents could use them to blow up ports, dams, power stations and pipelines. ... Christopher Andrew, ... [the co-author of] The Sword And The Shield, a history of the KGB, expands upon the extent of the operation. "Among the chief sabotage targets across the U.S. border were military bases, missile sites, radar installations and the oil pipeline which ran from El Paso, Texas, to Costa Mesa, Calif.," he says. The KGB also had plans to put America in the dark. Operating from a safe house in Big Spring Park, near Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, KGB terrorists planned to attack powerline interconnection points serving the Northeast. Montana was the focus of what Andrew believes would have been a two-stage attack against Flathead and Hungry Horse dams. "[The documents] identified a point, code-named Doris, on the South Fork River about 3 kilometers below the dam where [they] could bring down a series of pylons on a steep mountain slope that would take a lengthy period to repair," says Andrew. "The KGB also planned a probably simultaneous operation in which commandos would descend on the Hungry Horse Dam at night, take control of it for a few hours and sabotage its sluices. In 1967, a number of frontier crossings were reconnoitered, among them areas near the Lake of the Woods and the International Falls in Minnesota, and in the regions of the Glacier National Park in Montana." Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-07-24 |
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