America's Hidden Stories S1E5: CIA Cyber Attack
- Aired: 2019-04-01
- Time: 20:00:00
- Runtime: 60 minutes
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Overview
It's a Cold War story involving a turncoat KGB agent, doctored computer chips, and a fiery blast in the Siberian wilderness big enough to see from space. Modern historians investigate the claim of a 1982 Russian gas pipeline explosion to see if it was the result of the world's first-ever cyber attack, a retaliatory measure ordered by Ronald Reagan to bring the Soviet Union to its knees for decades of espionage.