The Shadow Dossier — The Technology Theft Program With a Shopping List
Within the KGB's foreign intelligence directorate, a division known internally as Line X operated for decades with a specific and almost bureaucratic mission: acquiring Western scientific and technological secrets that the Soviet Union's own research institutions were struggling to develop independently. Unlike the popular image of Cold War espionage centered on political or military secrets, Line X dealt in something more mundane and, in its way, more systemic: semiconductors, machine tooling, aerospace engineering, computing, and industrial manufacturing processes.
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