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2004-02-02 International

The "Farewell Dossier" -- the spooks get one right

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Posted by Mike 2004-02-02 12:49:21 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 That book on the Cold War, "At the Abyss" by Thomas C. Reed, looks like it's gonna be good! Nice post! RIP, Vetrov.

Posted by Dar 2004-2-2 1:09:35 PM|| 2004-2-2 1:09:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 awesome, truly awesome.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-2-2 1:15:33 PM|| 2004-2-2 1:15:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 That's so beautiful, I think I'm gonna cry.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-2-2 1:21:26 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-2-2 1:21:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Great story, but I hope that, post cold war, one of our wise acres didn't buy and use some of that surplus 'Soviet' technology.

Posted by Gasse Katze 2004-2-2 1:41:14 PM|| 2004-2-2 1:41:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Anybody want to buy some cheap, slightly-used GPS jammers? Very effective against those imperialist Yankee JDAMs! (Your mileage may vary)

Posted by Dar 2004-2-2 1:47:33 PM|| 2004-2-2 1:47:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Was that the same explosion that woke up the Velas?

Posted by Lassie 2004-2-2 2:04:43 PM|| 2004-2-2 2:04:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "three kilotons"

Holy boom-boom,Batman.

Posted by Raptor 2004-2-2 3:58:03 PM|| 2004-2-2 3:58:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 estimated at three kilotons

That's how good the Reagan people were. They didn't even need a nuke to bomb the Soviets into shitting their pants.

We probably have intelligence success like this today(without the boom), but it won't come out for years. Still, this made me grin maniacly and think about what chips the Chinese are using for the Three Gorges Dam.

Posted by Charles 2004-2-2 4:44:01 PM|| 2004-2-2 4:44:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Fred, Old Spook, was this one of your projects, back in the day?

I think they'd tell ya, but then they'd have to kill ya...

Posted by Raj 2004-2-2 4:47:07 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-2-2 4:47:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Dar, I think those jammers were designed to jam the new Russian/Euro GPS system. Got to be careful about what you write on teh purchase order.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-2-2 6:05:27 PM|| 2004-2-2 6:05:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Never EVER underestimate the creative minds in the U.S. And that boyz and girlz is how you destroy an evil empire without firing a shot.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-2-2 6:52:07 PM|| 2004-2-2 6:52:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I can't believe the classification on this has expired or been rescinded yet, 21 years isn't nearly enough time. Maybe it's a warning to various other hostile nations that like to steal our tech. Make them spend billions of ~~yuan~~ dollars tearing their stuffs apart and wondering if it really works. bwaaahahahahha

Any body have a link on the 3kt blast in siberia?

Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-2-2 7:34:36 PM|| 2004-2-2 7:34:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Tales of the explosion were probably the inspiration for some scenes in Clancy's Cardinal of the Kremlin.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-2-2 8:15:31 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-2-2 8:15:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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