History repeats itself.
> In January 1982, President Ronald 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.
> At the time, the United States was attempting to block Western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/r...