Raised Doubts
Some have called Reed's account into question. A report in the Moscow Times quotes a KGB veteran as saying that there was a natural gas pipeline explosion in 1982, but it was near Tobolsk on a pipeline connecting the Urengoy gas field to the city of Chelyabinsk, and it was caused by poor construction rather than sabotage; according to his account no one was killed in the explosion and the damage was repaired within one day.
Since the declassification of the "Farewell Dossier" in 1996, an analysis has emerged on CIA's website, explaining that the CIA fed much defective technology to the Soviets, including a reference to the fact that "flawed turbines were installed on a gas pipeline" but does not state whether the flawed turbine was involved in any explosion.
Read more about this topic: Siberian Pipeline Sabotage
Famous quotes containing the words raised and/or doubts:
“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has looked favorably on his people and redeemed them.
He has raised up a mighty savior for us
in the house of his servant David,
as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old...”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 1:68-70.
“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)