America's Hidden Stories (2019)

S1E5 CIA Cyber Attack

Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the narrative unfolds with a double-crossing KGB operative, tampered computer chips, and a massive explosion in the Siberian wilderness that was so intense it could be observed from space. Contemporary historians delve into the alleged June 1982 detonation of a Russian gas pipeline, probing whether it marked the inaugural cyber attack in history—a covert operation sanctioned by Ronald Reagan aimed at crippling the Soviet Union.