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Re:The Untold Story of How US Spies Sabotaged Soviet Technology by rramadass on Sunday August 04, 2024 @11:47AM (#41154267)
No, you understood it wrong. He could just be the conduit for goods and nothing more. It is for the entire Scientific/Engineering establishment in the USSR and its allies to figure that out.

One way might be by simple black-box behaviour testing of gizmo-x received in the USSR vs. the same done in a legal company in the US/Europe/Japan and then narrowing down the problem.

I will bet my bottom dollar that the same thing is going on even today (w.r.t. the usual suspects like China/Iran/etc.) given how crucial Technology has become to maintaining Economic/Military superiority.

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Re:The Untold Story of How US Spies Sabotaged Soviet Technology by Cupertino95014 on Sunday August 04, 2024 @12:54PM (#41154773)
OK, that was a reasonable reading of "he can get complete systems with some deformities/problems to the Soviets and then have them reverse engineer the system while correcting/fixing the problem parts/deformities"

All he could possibly know is "this thing may be sabotaged." I suppose that is some help to the Soviets.

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