US triggered massive Siberian explosion

THE US covertly transferred technology to the Soviet Union that contained hidden faults, including software that triggered one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever seen, a senior official in the Reagan White House has revealed.

Thomas Reed, a former Air Force secretary, was serving in the National Security Council when, in January 1982, he said President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the Soviet economy.

Is his book At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War, Reed described a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline which he says “was just one example of “cold-eyed economic warfare” against the Soviet Union.