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A few thoughts: 1) It's amazing how the operation to steal the AIM-9, despite being so high-risk, was accomplished with much ease & simplicity. 2) I am surpri

A few thoughts: 1) It's amazing how the operation to steal the AIM-9, despite being so high-risk, was accomplished with much ease & simplicity. 2) I am surprised that the KGB agent and his conspirators only received 4 years of prison time for this. This might just be my ignorance of the subject, but isn't stealing a missile and giving it to an enemy more deserving of a stricter sentence? Perhaps a deal was involved related to the intelligence the former KGB agent could provide in exchange for some leniency. 3) Tangential but semi-related: There is an interesting theory by Dimitri Khalezov about the armed Russian Kursk submarine, which sunk in 2000, being the source of a stolen nuclear-capable P-700 Granit anti-ship cruise missile. His theory is that this missile was the projectile which rammed through The Pentagon (but failed to detonate) on 2001 September 11th. Who stole the missile and why is a mystery, but pictures of the impact at The Pentagon and what is known about this missile could support the theory. Allegedly, when the Russians extracted the warheads from their sunken submarine, the extraction team was ordered to fill the warhead containers with a type of foam that would permanently seal them without checking the contents of the containers themselves. In essence, one or more missile containers recovered from the submarine may have actually been empty & verification of the contents was prevented in order to cover up the fact that a nuclear weapon had gone missing.

umvi 8y ago
> 3) Tangential but semi-related So wait... some people think a missile hit the Pentagon instead of an airplane on 9/11? What happened to American Airlines Flight 77, then?
- Larrikin 8y ago
  Those same people tend to believe the moon landing was faked as well.
  - equalunique 8y ago
    The moon landing I tend not to care about either way, because the impact of that event didn't result in terrible things for the US (like decades of war in the middle east.)
- equalunique 8y ago
  >some people think a missile hit the Pentagon The strike on the pentagon was not dissimilar from a non-detonating cruise missile hit. >What happened to American Airlines Flight 77, then? A 4-hour presentation given by Khalezov includes 9/11 video of a witness at The Pentagon stating there was no airplane. He later suggests that the planes were acquired by the US government as a cover story so the population would not believe the nation was under nuclear threat. I suppose that because the government heavily regulates the airline industry and is deeply involved in classified ways with the same companies who manufacture these aircraft, it's not inconceivable that some could be acquired for the purposes of a cover-up. Here's a question for you: Why were certain procedures unique to nuclear attacks enacted on the day of 9/11? For example, why was the door to NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado sealed if the threat was only hijacked planes?
  - UncleEntity 8y ago
    > Here's a question for you: Why were certain procedures unique to nuclear attacks enacted on the day of 9/11? For example, why was the door to NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado sealed if the threat was only hijacked planes? Because the shit hit the fan and everyone hit the panic button Just in Case™?

umvi 8y ago

> 3) Tangential but semi-related So wait... some people think a missile hit the Pentagon instead of an airplane on 9/11? What happened to American Airlines Flight 77, then?

Larrikin 8y ago
Those same people tend to believe the moon landing was faked as well.
- equalunique 8y ago
  The moon landing I tend not to care about either way, because the impact of that event didn't result in terrible things for the US (like decades of war in the middle east.)
equalunique 8y ago
>some people think a missile hit the Pentagon The strike on the pentagon was not dissimilar from a non-detonating cruise missile hit. >What happened to American Airlines Flight 77, then? A 4-hour presentation given by Khalezov includes 9/11 video of a witness at The Pentagon stating there was no airplane. He later suggests that the planes were acquired by the US government as a cover story so the population would not believe the nation was under nuclear threat. I suppose that because the government heavily regulates the airline industry and is deeply involved in classified ways with the same companies who manufacture these aircraft, it's not inconceivable that some could be acquired for the purposes of a cover-up. Here's a question for you: Why were certain procedures unique to nuclear attacks enacted on the day of 9/11? For example, why was the door to NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado sealed if the threat was only hijacked planes?
- UncleEntity 8y ago
  > Here's a question for you: Why were certain procedures unique to nuclear attacks enacted on the day of 9/11? For example, why was the door to NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado sealed if the threat was only hijacked planes? Because the shit hit the fan and everyone hit the panic button Just in Case™?