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A CIA operation ( NYTimes article , Wikipedia article ) starting in 1982 fed tailored misinformation to a KGB technology espionage program called Line X. This included “Contrived computer chips found their way into Soviet military equipment, flawed turbines were installed on a gas pipeline, and defective plans disrupted the output of chemical plants and a tractor factory. The Pentagon introduced misleading information pertinent to stealth aircraft, space defense, and tactical aircraft. The Soviet Space Shuttle was a rejected NASA design.” The greatest success came when tailored (trojaned) software running a pipeline triggered and “reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds” causing “the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space”.
