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This is a well established intelligence tactic. It was used by the Clinton administration to poison the well of nuclear development in Iran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Merlin



Also by the Reagan administration to sabotage economic development in the USSR,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/r...

- "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."




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