Farewell: The World's First Supply Chain Cyber Attack

In this episode, the podcast explores Operation Kudu, a plan developed by Dr. Gus Weiss to combat Soviet economic espionage during the Cold War. The plan involved feeding the Soviets bad technology and software, ultimately causing economic damage by disrupting the operation of crucial projects like a natural gas pipeline. The Americans also used Operation Kudu to plant Trojan horses and introduce other malware into stolen technology, undermining the USSR's intelligence capabilities. This operation contributed to Reagan's mission of burning out the Soviet Union in a technological supremacy war. The resulting economic strain, combined with the dismantling of the KGB's international operation for technology theft, played a significant role in the decline of the Soviet Union.