Exposing The West

In 1991, [powerful neocon and Iraq war architect Paul Wolfowitz] was the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy – the number 3 position at the Pentagon. And I had gone to see him when I was a 1-Star General commanding the National Training Center.

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And I said, “Mr. Secretary, you must be pretty happy with the performance of the troops in Desert Storm.”

And he said: “Yeah, but not really, because the truth is we should have gotten rid of Saddam Hussein, and we didn’t … But one thing we did learn [from the Persian Gulf War] is that we can use our military in the region – in the Middle East – and the Soviets won’t stop us. And we’ve got about 5 or 10 years to clean up those old Soviet client regimes – Syria, Iran, Iraq – before the next great superpower comes on to challenge us.”

magnumcromagnon wrote:All this talk of NATO needing to protect their Eastern European allies is truly laughable:

NATO wanted to nuke their future allies

max steel wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:All this talk of NATO needing to protect their Eastern European allies is truly laughable:

NATO wanted to nuke their future allies

Can't find any such article describing nato wants to nuke their allies

Militarov wrote:

max steel wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:All this talk of NATO needing to protect their Eastern European allies is truly laughable:

NATO wanted to nuke their future allies

Can't find any such article describing nato wants to nuke their allies

I however on other hand can

"U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time

According to 1956 Plan, H-Bombs were to be Used Against Priority “Air Power” Targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe

Major Cities in Soviet Bloc, Including East Berlin, Were High Priorities in “Systematic Destruction” for Atomic Bombings

Plans to Target People (“Population”) Violated International Legal Norms"

"The SAC [Strategic Air Command] Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956 and published today for the first time by the National Security Archive www.nsarchive.org, provides the most comprehensive and detailed list of nuclear targets and target systems that has ever been declassified. As far as can be told, no comparable document has ever been declassified for any period of Cold War history.

The SAC study includes chilling details. According to its authors,  their target priorities and nuclear bombing tactics would expose nearby civilians and “friendly forces and people” to high levels of deadly radioactive fallout.  Moreover, the authors developed a plan for the “systematic destruction” of Soviet bloc urban-industrial targets that specifically and explicitly targeted “population” in all cities, including Beijing, Moscow, Leningrad, East Berlin, and Warsaw.  Purposefully targeting civilian populations as such directly conflicted with the international norms of the day, which prohibited attacks on people per se (as opposed to military installations with civilians nearby).

The National Security Archive, based at The George Washington University, obtained the study, totaling more than 800 pages, through the Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) process (see sidebar).

The SAC document includes lists of more than 1100 airfields in the Soviet bloc, with a priority number assigned to each base.  With the Soviet bomber force as the highest priority for nuclear targeting (this was before the age of ICBMs), SAC assigned priority one and two to Bykhov and Orsha airfields, both located in Belorussia. At both bases, the Soviet Air Force deployed medium-range Badger (TU-16) bombers, which would have posed a threat to NATO allies and U.S. forces in Western Europe.  

A second list was of urban-industrial areas identified for “systematic destruction.”  SAC listed over 1200 cities in the Soviet bloc, from East Germany to China, also with priorities established.  Moscow and Leningrad were priority one and two respectively.  Moscow included 179 Designated Ground Zeros (DGZs) while Leningrad had 145, including “population” targets.  In both cities, SAC identified air power installations, such as Soviet Air Force command centers, which it would have devastated with thermonuclear weapons early in the war.

According to the study, SAC would have targeted Air Power targets with bombs ranging from 1.7 to 9 megatons.  Exploding them at ground level, as planned, would have produced significant fallout hazards to nearby civilians.  SAC also wanted a 60 megaton weapon which it believed necessary for deterrence, but also because it would produce “significant results” in the event of a Soviet surprise attack. One megaton would be 70 times the explosive yield of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
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Source: http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclear-Target-List-Declassified-First-Ever/

Walther von Oldenburg wrote:OMFG, "plans" once more...

Every country makes hundreds of plans "in case of...". 99.99% of them never see implementation. I am sure that PLA general staff has plans for a war against India  -does it mean that China actually wants to wage war with India?

jhelb wrote:
North America before illegal immigrants spoiled the place

GarryB wrote:So what you are saying is that we europeans are civilised and advanced in technology, but when someone talks about your crimes and history of being very uncivilised you revert to being a 5 year old and say but they did it too...

Which pretty much shows the civility and morality is skin deep and useless... practise what you preach or shut the fuck up.

CIA Spied Using Sabotaged Encryption Equipment It Sold to Foreign Governments Since the 1970s

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA) spied on allies and enemies alike through a company they owned that made cryptography equipment, according to an explosive new report from the Washington Post and Germany’s ZDF news outlet.

The Swiss-based company, Crypto AG, which was founded in the 1940s as an independent firm during World War II, struck a shady deal with the CIA in 1951, subsequently became owned by the CIA in the 1970s, and was disbanded in 2018. And many former employees of the company, most of whom apparently had no idea that Crypto AG was secretly controlled by the CIA, are not happy with the revelation.

The Washington Post and ZDF learned about the program, codenamed both Rubicon and Thesaurus at various times, through a 2004 secret CIA history document produced by the agency itself and a 2008 oral history by German intelligence. But the news outlets never tell readers how they obtained these tightly guarded documents.

The CIA and NSA controlled Crypto AG jointly with Western Germany’s intelligence agency during the first Cold War.

“It was the intelligence coup of the century,” the CIA report reads, according to the Washington Post. “Foreign governments were paying good money to the U.S. and West Germany for the privilege of having their most secret communications read by at least two (and possibly as many as five or six) foreign countries.”

The “five or six foreign countries” likely refers to the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing agreement between the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with the sixth country being Germany.

The spying program was wildly successful and accounted for roughly 40 percent of all intel interceptions of foreign governments by U.S. intelligence in the 1980s and a whopping 90 percent for West German intelligence (BND), according to a screenshot of the CIA history published by the Post.

The Americans eventually bought out the Germans, who left the spying arrangement in the early 1990s, to take sole ownership of Crypto AG, sometimes referred to by its company codename Minerva.

How did the cryptography technology work to deceive foreign governments? Crypto AG’s machines were made to look like they were producing randomly generated characters to encode messages, but they were anything but random. The NSA didn’t install backdoors, it just made the encryption weak enough that the agency could crack the messages.

The Soviet Union and China never purchased Crypto AG’s technology, but at least 62 other countries like Japan, Mexico, Egypt, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Argentina, Indonesia, and Libya, all reportedly used the encryption devices and had their most sensitive government communications intercepted and deciphered by the CIA for over half a century. As just one example in the Post’s story, the Carter administration was spying on Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat during the Camp David Accords.

This, of course, leads to some uncomfortable questions about times when U.S. intelligence agencies may have learned about horrific human rights abuses and did nothing to stop them. Or, in the case of Central and South America, times when the CIA may have actively helped perpetrate crimes against humanity while learning about different plots around the world.

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/cia-spied-using-sabotaged-encryption-equipment-it-sold-1841597851