Rust seems fairly lucid in this interview: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cold-war-is-back-peace-activist/article7720749.ece http://www.thehindu.com/news

Rust seems fairly lucid in this interview: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cold-war-is-back-peace-activist/article7720749.ece http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cold-war-is-back-peace... Rust enabled Gorbachev to enact the biggest military purge since Stalin, which helped bring the Cold War to an end. Wires which would have made his landing impossible had been taken down. I'm surprised conspiracy theorists have not claimed it was planned by the Soviet leadership.