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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cue conspiracy on a CIA plan that took 50 years to yield results.

[–] Bernie_Sandals 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"So hear me out, we place a bomb in one of the Hueys and then stop supplying them with new ones, one day their leader will totally get on it and then we got em"

"Yo bill maybe slow down on the company acid please."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Too obvious. More like, "We're going to use slightly less lubricated ball bearings, position the aircraft on the market just where they will buy it, the maintenance specificity will not be documented, and it should kill a couple of important people in 50 years!". (Loosely inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet)

[–] Bernie_Sandals 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure the CIA was doing stuff as advanced as Stuxnet in its LSD days when it was supplying Iran.

Though now that you mention it, I'm surprised we've never heard of the CIA doing more things like obscure Stuxnet style sabotage on leaders' aircraft and the like.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 4 points 1 month ago

Hey man do you want it done fast or do you want it done right?