Farewell Dossier
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The Farewell Dossier was a collection of documents containing intelligence gathered by a Soviet defector named Colonel Vetrov, code-named Farewell, in the Cold War. An engineer, he was assigned to evaluate information on US hardware and software, which had been gathered by US-based spies ("Line X") for Directorate T. He ultimately divulged information on many members of Line X.
This information led to a counter-intelligence operation of CIA that amounted to modifying valuable hardware designs to include subtle faults which would later result in complete failure of the system, and slipping Trojan horses into software. These were planted to be stolen by the spies in Line X. It is claimed that this eventually acted as sabotage of the Trans-Siberian gas pipeline, and the subsequent explosion of it, which has been compared to a 3-kiloton bomb.
The details of the operation were declassified in 1996.
External links and references
- The Farewell Dossier (http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/96unclass/farewell.htm) Written by Gus W. Weiss. Made available online by the CIA at their Studies in Intelligence site. "All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed in Studies in Intelligence are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect official positions or views of the Central Intelligence Agency or any other US Government entity, past or present. Nothing in the contents should be construed as asserting or implying US Government endorsement of an article's factual statements and interpretations." [1] (http://www.cia.gov/csi/disclaimer.html)
- Tech sabotage during the Cold War (http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0426/feat-strange-04-26-04.asp) Written by Matthew French. FCW media site. "Thomas Reed watched the Cold War from a privileged perspective inside the White House as a member of President Reagan's National Security Council. His book, At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War, contains seldom-publicized details of the intrigue and subterfuge employed to topple the Soviet Union."