Farewell to Sanity

Posted by: sc 01-10-2022 0 30 Views

Forty years ago (!), the U.S. security state was cheesed off by a Soviet natural gas pipeline from Siberia to Europe. So the CIA arranged to blow it up. The resulting massive explosion was visible from space. It set off U.S. nuclear explosion monitoring alarms, and startled White House security officials not in on the scheme.

We know this today because, years later, the people involved finally started bragging.

Their CIA operation — code-named the Farewell Dossier and lavishly praised in a tell-all book by Thomas Reed, a former secretary of the U.S. Air Force — fed the Soviets a supply of cleverly sabotaged computer chips. Once installed, the chips worked well for months — until the day they suddenly sent pipeline systems haywire.

The result, in June 1982, was a natural gas pipeline disaster in remote Siberia that Reed said was “the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space.”

News media at the time completely missed this sentinel event. A search of The New York Times archive for “Siberia” and “explosion” from June to August 1982 reveals only one article — which, irony of ironies, discussed how the United States and Soviet Union continued to threaten mutual nuclear annihilation. That article concluded by citing an expert who warned: “The real danger for us all is an accident.”

Hilariously, this expert then specifically cited the massive meteor of 1908 that struck Siberia and noted that a similar, unexplained Siberian explosion in 1982 could instantly trigger civilization-ending nuclear weapons launches: “In today’s atmosphere of distrust, a lot of systems would be put into action automatically.”

Could the CIA really have been reckless enough — during the incredible international tension of the early 1980s — to engineer a massive explosion in Siberia? This was an explosion visible from space, an explosion that set off nuclear warning bells — and CIA brought this about just because?

Apparently, yes. They are that reckless.

Don’t be surprised if you never heard of the Farewell Dossier, revealed more than 20 years later by former Air Force Secretary Reed’s book. It never got much media play. In The New York Times it has been mentioned exactly once, in a 2004 Op-Ed by conservative commentator William Safire. Remember, this was a terrorist-style attack on a foreign country, an escapade that only by chance killed no one. But in his bizarre crowing ode to the episode, Safire describes it as an example of American genius. His take-home sentence: “Now is a time to remember that sometimes our spooks get it right in a big way.”

You heard correctly. A CIA operation to risk accidental nuclear war and, in peace time, go blow up a Siberian pipeline — maybe killing a bunch of working-stiff oilmen, or maybe not, who cares? — that was a shining example of getting it right.

Re-reading Safire today — after Russia’s massive underseas gas pipelines to Europe have just been sabotaged, almost certainly by a U.S. government covert operation — is pretty eerie. Safire recounts how, in the 1980s, he had used the New York Times Op-Ed pages to repeatedly denounce Western European nations for supporting the hated Siberia-to-Europe pipeline. The pipeline had to be stopped, he argued, because it would “give control of European energy supplies to the Communists,” and fund “Soviet computer and satellite research:”

Fast-forward forty years, and this same world view is shared by Senator Ted Cruz, seen berating the Biden Administration last summer for its “capitulation” on Nord Stream 2 because Joe Biden was “soft on Russia.” But that same world view is in fact entirely shared by the Biden administration itself, which fully agreed with Cruz that we can’t let ~~the Communists subsidize their nefarious computer research~~ Vladimir Putin put his oily hands on Europe.

President Biden himself upped the ante earlier this year, vowing that if Russia really did invade Ukraine, “then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2:”

So from Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden, we’re looking at a 40-year bipartisan obsession with Russian pipelines to Europe — they always must be stopped, at all costs, even on a good day! As of this year, we also now have an explicit threat by the U.S. President that if Russia crosses our red line, America will “bring an end” to their pipeline.

Now that same pipeline lies breached by underseas explosions, creating a massive ecological disaster. The methane boiling out of the sea looks like a hurricane of war rushing at our planet. All that’s missing are a bunch of Ukrainian peace doves overwhelmed by the fumes, dropping from the skies, floating stunned or dead on the water.

Meanwhile we have NATO cheerfully tweeting — on the same day of the pipeline explosions (!) — about how their maritime exercises underway right now “present opportunities to test new unmanned systems at sea”:

Russia is demanding a UN Security Council session to discuss the pipeline attack. The European Union leadership is waking up and also demanding an investigation of an obvious case of sabotage. Even the White House agrees it sure looks like sabotage!

But sabotage by whom? Incredibly, mainstream U.S. media and commentators continue to lead with the theory that Russia might have blown up its own pipeline. Here’s The New York Times headline from yesterday. The article — top New York Times analysis of a major world development — offers the following gem: “At first glance, it seems counter-intuitive that the Kremlin would damage its own multibillion-dollar assets.” But look beyond that first glance! Because the Russians, it seems, are just that sneaky! Sure, they may have had the ability to turn the pipeline off and on at will, but instead they prefer to blow it up just to freak us all out! Soon they will probably set fire to the Kremlin, just to scare the bejesus out of us.

Here’s a similarly boneheaded hot take by the reliably-wrongheaded Anders Åslund:

My favorite so far: A journalist in the White House press corps asked presidential spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre whether Russia blowing up its own pipeline and leaking oil and gas all over European coastlines counted as “an attack on a NATO ally worthy of retaliation.” Because, I guess, pollution? She replied by, Haha, declining to get too far ahead of things:

Let’s not waste any more time on such absurd fairytales.

Instead, let’s just see this moment for what it is: A major, frightening leap forward toward a world war.

With escalating bad decisions, we are accelerating our march toward a direct conflict between the United States and Russia. Such a war would be completely artificial in its creation. It would be in neither nation’s interest. It could easily trigger a civilization-ending nuclear weapons exchange that could kill most people on Earth. And this entire mindless zombie march toward doom could be called off tomorrow — if only the Biden Administration chose to support a Ukraine-Russia peace process, and to renounce aggressive NATO expansion.

Instead of conciliation, the U.S. State Department has just announced that all U.S. citizens visiting, living in, or working in Russia should leave “immediately” — adding ominously, “while limited commercial travel options remain. Commercial flight options [out of Russia] are extremely limited at present and are often unavailable on short notice [says the State Department]. Overland routes by car and bus are still open. … U.S. citizens should not travel to Russia and those residing or traveling in Russia should depart Russia immediately while limited commercial travel options remain. This in itself is a significant, dark new development. Yet it’s barely news, in a world moving at terrifying speed in the wrong direction.

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CIA operation codenamed “Farewell dossier”, lavishly sung in a candid book by former Secretary of the Air Force Thomas Reid (Thomas Reed), was that, to supply the USSR with smart computer chips, set to sabotage. After installation, the chips worked properly for several months., and then suddenly put the gas pipeline out of action.

Finally in June 1982 year there was an accident on a gas pipeline in distant Siberia. According to Reed, This was “largest non-nuclear explosion and fire, ever seen from space”.

But the media at the time completely missed this momentous event.. If you search the archives of The New York Times between June and August 1982 according to “Siberia” and “explosion”, then only one article can be found, wherein, Ironically, talked about, how the US and the USSR continue to threaten each other with nuclear annihilation. The article ended with a quote from an expert, who warned: “The real danger for all of us is accident”.

Fun, that then the same expert focused on the fall of a meteorite in 1908 year in Siberia and noted, that an inexplicable explosion in Siberia could lead to the launch of a nuclear weapon, that will end civilization: “In the current atmosphere of distrust, many systems can automatically activate”.

America is already 40 obsessed with Russian gas pipelines in Europe for years, writes the author of the article on the Substack platform. In his opinion, diversion of “Nordic streams” — reckless adventure of the USA, which could lead to a world war. “This senseless march to death can be stopped even tomorrow”, he complains.

Forty years ago (!) US national security suddenly interfered with the Soviet gas pipeline from Siberia to Europe. As a result, the CIA ordered to blow it up. The explosion got so big, that it was visible from space, US nuclear alarm went off, and the security staff at the White House got scared, who did not know about the plan.

Now we know about it, because many years later, those involved in the explosion began to trump this information.

Finally in June 1982 year there was an accident on a gas pipeline in distant Siberia. According to Reed, This was “largest non-nuclear explosion and fire, ever seen from space”.

Was the CIA so eccentric, to organize a major explosion in Siberia, and even in the conditions of extraordinary international tensions of the early 1980s? The explosion was visible from space, and from him earned a nuclear alarm, and the CIA set it up just like that, on the empty place?

Now we know about it, because many years later, those involved in the explosion began to trump this information.

Finally in June 1982 year there was an accident on a gas pipeline in distant Siberia. According to Reed, This was “largest non-nuclear explosion and fire, ever seen from space”.

Apparently, yes. That's how crazy it was.

Do not wonder, if you've never heard of “farewell dossier”, about which more later 20 years, the former Secretary of the US Air Force Reid told in his book. It was hardly covered by the media.. It was only mentioned once in The New York Times., in 2004 year in an op-ed by conservative columnist William Safir (William Safire). Remember, it was a terrorist-style attack on the territory of another country, from which, by a lucky chance, no one died. But, strange as it may seem, Safir sings odes to this episode and uses it as an example of American genius. Here is his main idea: “Now is the time to remember, that sometimes our agents do everything right”.

Yes, you got it right. CIA operation, that could start a nuclear war, and the peacetime explosion of the Siberian gas pipeline, from which workers could die or not, yes what, actual difference, - this is a brilliant example of the right work.

After the Russian offshore gas pipeline, leading to Europe, there was a diversion, almost certainly carried out as part of a covert US government operation, from the words of Safira it becomes somehow uncomfortable. Safir remembers, how he used a column in The New York Times in the 1980s, to condemn the countries of Western Europe for supporting the hated gas pipeline from Siberia to Europe. He said, that the gas pipeline should be stopped, because because of him “control of European energy supplies will pass to the communists”, and, generally, he sponsors “Soviet research in the development of computers and satellites”.

Later 40 years, the same positions are expressed by Senator Ted Cruz (Ted Cruz). Last summer, he scolded the Biden administration for “capitulation” before “Nord Stream - 2”, because the president is too “soft on Russia”. But the Biden administration itself has the same worldview., who fully agrees with Cruz on the, that we can't let the communists sponsor their nefarious computer research, and Vladimir Putin to touch Europe with his dirty hands.

President Biden himself has previously upped the ante, promising, what if Russia really invades Ukraine, that “Nord Stream - 2 no longer”.

In this way, from the Ronald Reagan administration to Biden, we see, like both American parties now 40 obsessed with Russian gas pipelines in Europe for years: they always need to be stopped, at any price, even when everything is fine! This year there was a direct threat from the President of the United States. He declared, what, if Russia crosses our red line, USA “deal with” with pipe.

Now this very pipe is damaged due to underwater explosions., which led to a massive environmental disaster. Methane escaping from the sea is like a hurricane of war, approaching our planet. The only thing missing is a flock of Ukrainian peace doves, engulfed in smoke, that will fall from the sky and float dead or unconscious in the water.

Meanwhile, NATO gleefully announces on Twitter - on the day of the gas pipeline explosions (!) - About, like their underwater sea exercises, that are passing right now, “open up opportunities for testing new unmanned systems at sea”.

Russia demands to convene the UN Security Council, to discuss the attack on the gas pipeline. EU leaders wake up and demand investigation into apparent sabotage. Even the White House agrees, that there was no sabotage!

But whose side is the sabotage? Simply amazing, as American media and commentators, supporting the official point of view, continue to adhere to the theory that, that Russia, probably, she blew up her own gas pipeline. Here's yesterday's headline in The New York Times: “Mysterious sabotage on the gas pipeline. Who did it? (Maybe, Russia?)”.

In the article, in which The New York Times analyzes a major world event, you can see this pearl: “At first glance it seems illogical, for the Kremlin to damage its own multi-billion dollar assets”.

Dig deeper! Russians, maybe, so mean! They are, certainly, can open and close the faucet, when they want, but they prefer to blow up gas pipelines, to terrify us! And soon they, maybe, and the Kremlin will be set on fire, to scare the hell out of us.

And here is the same stupid approach from the eternally mistaken Anders Aslund (Anders Åslund):

“Two explosions at Nord Stream took place outside the territorial waters of Denmark and Sweden, i.e. in international waters. There were big explosions, which were masterfully organized. I spoke to experts in Stockholm, and they all speak with one voice: Russia”.

But so far my favorite is this: a reporter from the White House pool asked Presidential Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, whether Russia's explosion of its own pipeline and leakage of oil and gas near the European coast “attack on a NATO ally, deserving of retribution”. Let me guess, due to pollution? She answered, a lot, ha-ha, why run so far.

Let's not waste time on such absurd tales.

Instead, let's better perceive the current situation as, what is she: scary big leap to world war.

With your bad decisions, increasing tension, we are accelerating the onset of direct conflict between the US and Russia. Such a war would be completely artificial. She wouldn't suit anyone's interests. It would easily lead to the use of nuclear weapons, which would destroy civilization and many people on our planet. And this senseless march of zombies towards death could be canceled even tomorrow, if only the Biden administration supported the peace process between Ukraine and Russia and abandoned the aggressive expansion of NATO.

But instead of going for reconciliation, the US State Department just announced, that all American citizens, who are now, live or work in Russia, should “immediately” leave the country, and ominously added, what “while limited opportunities for commercial travel remain”:

“Opportunities for commercial flights (From Russia) are currently extremely limited and may become unavailable in the near future (says the State Department). Land routes for cars and buses are still open. (…) American citizens should not visit Russia, and those, who currently resides or travels in Russia, should leave the country immediately, while there are limited opportunities for commercial flights”.

And that in itself is an important dark new event.. But it's not that big of a news., Considering, that the world is moving in the wrong direction at an alarming rate.