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Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Memoir reveals CIA role in blast

FLAW WAS PLANTED TO SABOTAGE SOVIETS

WASHINGTON - In January 1982, President 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.
I guess you could call this the first computer virus.