Talk:Farewell Dossier

message: This eventually resulted to the sabotage and blast of the Trans-Siberian gas pipeline, compared to a 3-kiloton bomb.
I think this sentence needs to be reworded. Did this really happen? When did it happen? No reference is made to it in the CIA link. Edward 21:57, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm still not following the connection between slipping trojan horses into data, and causing a massive explosion. I'm going to make an edit along the lines of "In his book, Thomas C. Reed claims that the operation blah blah blah"Sockatume, Talk 03:13, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: Okay, I just made a fairly major edit based on the content of that CIA document and google searches for the bits the CIA document was vague on. CIA document? Not completely clear on events? Well I never. Turns out it has little to do with trojan horses in the computer sense, but a lot to do with their mechanical analogues. Sockatume, Talk 03:33, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: As was later reported in Aviation Week and Space Technology, CIA and the Defense Department, in partnership with the FBI, set up a program to do just what we had discussed: modified products were devised and "made available" to Line X collection channels. The CIA project leader and his associates studied the Farewell material, examined export license applications and other intelligence, and contrived to introduce altered products into KGB collection. American industry helped in the preparation of items to be "marketed" to Line X. Contrived computer chips found their way into Soviet military equipment, flawed turbines were installed on a gas pipeline, and defective plans disrupted the output of chemical plants and a tractor factory.
...therefore "flawed turbines were installed on a gas pipeline", but it does not identify the pipeline nor does it say that those flawed turbines were installed on the Trans-Siberian pipeline, nor does it say that they were linked to the pipeline explosion (and we don't even know just which pipeline explosion we're trying to credit the CIA for, anyway). If the CIA is at fault for the pipeline disaster, they have not admitted to it there. Bad citation. I'm deleting the reference to the pipeline disaster until someone finds a reference somewhere. - Eric (talk) 08:50, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Farewell linked to Trans-Siberian gas pipeline

message: This article contains far too much detail about what the Cold War was and how it affected US/Soviet Policy. Though it is appropriate for placing the article in context, this can be accomplished much easier through an internal wiki link to Cold War. Djma12 17:54, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it is opinion. Specifically, it is the opinion of Fidel Castro, to whom it is sourced. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 17:15, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Howard C. Berkowitz may be alluding to Wikipedia policy WP:YESPOV -- the policy that significant opinions should be described and properly attributed in Wikipedia articles. But is this particular statement relevant to the Farewell Dossier, or is the Cold War article a better place for it? --DavidCary (talk) 12:13, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cold War Section 

message: Who is "Safire"? Referenced several times without introduction nor clarification...
MentAl (talk) 09:23, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: William Safire. Original citation must have been deleted. I'll fix it; thanks. While the article itself is organizationally messy, TECHINT may well go into more detail on some of this topic. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 15:53, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Safire

message: In the Farewell Dossier article "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_Dossier",
Vetrov is said to have been executed in 1983 : "he was executed in 1983".
In the Vladimir Vetrov article "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vetrov.",
Vetrov is said to have died in 1985 : "10 October 1932 - 23 January 1985" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.177.245.245 (talk) 14:12, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vetrov date of death problem