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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by detaro on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @12:20PM (#32997458)
Note that these boasts from the Secretaries autobiography are also the only source suggesting that this happened.
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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by joshuajill on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @12:56PM (#32997955)
Quoting the Washington Post:

> Portions of the operation have been disclosed earlier, including in a 1996 paper in Studies in Intelligence, a CIA journal.

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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by throwrqX on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @02:47PM (#32999401)
The Wikipedia article quotes V. D. Zakhmatov to say this kind of attack was never possible in the first place because the control systems were either manual or analog, not digital.

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

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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by joshuajill on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @05:21PM (#33001285)
He says it wasn't likely because most systems were analogically controlled. Emphasis in most.
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