Talk:Farewell Dossier
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This eventually resulted to the sabotage and blast of the Trans-Siberian gas pipeline, compared to a 3-kiloton bomb.
I think this sentence needs to be reworded. Did this really happen? When did it happen? No reference is made to it in the CIA link. Edward 21:57, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
Okay maybe it did happen June 1982, Google provides some more sources:
Edward 22:00, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
Yeah, and what about this source? [1] C'mon people!
The sole source for the articles you cite - and anything else I can find on the subject - is Thomas C. Reed, who is promoting a book in which he makes these claims. I have not read Reed's book, but at least one reviewer [2] claims that much of it is hearsay and anecdotal. The declassified CIA report, as you note, does not support the claim; for a start it says only defective hardware was supplied, not Trojaned software. I think we need to reword this to make it clear that it's just one guy's claim. Also, BTW, "Farewell Dossier" does not seem to be the name of an operation at all, but a document: the report on Soviet "Line X" espionage prepared by a French agent codenamed FAREWELL. Securiger 07:03, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I'm still not following the connection between slipping trojan horses into data, and causing a massive explosion. I'm going to make an edit along the lines of "In his book, Thomas C. Reed claims that the operation blah blah blah"Sockatume, Talk 03:13, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Okay, I just made a fairly major edit based on the content of that CIA document and google searches for the bits the CIA document was vague on. CIA document? Not completely clear on events? Well I never. Turns out it has little to do with trojan horses in the computer sense, but a lot to do with their mechanical analogues. Sockatume, Talk 03:33, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cold War Section
This article contains far too much detail about what the Cold War was and how it affected US/Soviet Policy. Though it is appropriate for placing the article in context, this can be accomplished much easier through an internal wiki link to Cold War. Djma12 17:54, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
This acticle calls for the detail about the Cold War, becuase because it was the U.S./Soviet diplomacy AND policy that caused the Farewell Dossier and all incidents tied to it to happen. Not to mention that the "Farewell Dossier" was a person, not the actuall Trans-Siberian Pipeline incident.--Mark D. 01:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- The Farewell Dossier was the actual collection of files handed over by Vladimir Vetrov, not the person. Also, I think any reader who was savvy enough to find this article has a decent comprehension of the Cold War. Finally, the Trans-Siberian Incident was directly related to the Dossier. Regards, Djma12 (talk) 19:01, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
