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Lunik: The CIA's plot to steal a Soviet satellite (2021)
Author : marcodiego
Score : 47 points
Date : 2023-08-29 16:23 UTC (1 days ago)
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| dang wrote:
| Related - others?
|
| _How the CIA Stole a Soviet Satellite_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8083605 - July 2014 (1
| comment)
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| Looks like the comment in that post has a link with a bad
| redirect. This appears to have the intended content:
| https://orbitalfocus.uk/Diaries/Luna/Luna.php (in my case, it
| redirected to
| https://orbitalfocus.uk/of.php/Diaries/Luna/Luna.php which I
| manually changed to the seemingly correct URL).
| dang wrote:
| Ok, I've added https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37328027.
| Thanks!
| jandrese wrote:
| Amazing that one crisis that nearly gave away the operation is
| nobody had experience backing up a trailer.
| wil421 wrote:
| I like the part about having to eat only oatmeal leading up to
| the heist. Quite a few operations have been ruined by the runs
| it seems.
| hhh wrote:
| There is a long history of controlling diets before missions,
| and providing very specific foods for these missions to not
| upset the stomach. See an MRE from the U-2:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZuEGAsO4CA
| messe wrote:
| https://archive.ph/th6xF
| Tee3993 wrote:
| > If they got things wrong, Scott warned that "World War III
| could begin,"
|
| CIA has great tradition with taking this sort of risks. But over
| decades they got way more reckless, and way less smart!!
| earthboundkid wrote:
| They started as evil and dumb, and they've stayed that way.
| Abolish the CIA.
| Sakos wrote:
| Why do people always talk about CIA as if it existed in a
| vacuum? The KGB were at least as ruthless and I can't imagine
| how badly everything would've gone without the CIA or other
| intelligence services on our side. Even now we have enemies
| which justify the continued existence of these agencies.
| dylan604 wrote:
| Let's pick up an entire sunken submarine with a claw from the
| surface by attaching to the center of the boat instead of
| something applying more even pressure. It's like there was
| nobody in the room that had ever played the claw vending
| machine game and saw the futility of it. "The smartest guys in
| the room" seems apropos
| vesrah wrote:
| I thought this happened because the claw was pretty heavily
| damaged during deployment, only a small bit of it was
| actually able to grip.
| roughly wrote:
| Gambler's ruin where the prize is nuclear holocaust does
| attract a certain type
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