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Flashback: Russian Defector Colonel Stanislav Lunev: Invasion Warning || Hidden Nuclear Bombs in USA

by mosesman

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43995855

  • Nuclear sabotage operations (Wikipedia-Stanislav Lunev)
    Lunev is mostly known for his description of nuclear sabotage operations that have allegedly been prepared by the KGB and GRU across the Western world. It was known from other sources that large arms caches were hidden by the KGB in many countries for these planned activities. They were booby-trapped with “Lightning” explosive devices. One such cache, which was identified by Vasili Mitrokhin, exploded when Swiss authorities tried to remove it from a location in the woods near Bern. Several others caches were removed successfully.[3]

    Lunev asserted that some of the hidden caches could contain portable tactical nuclear weapons known as RA-115 “suitcase bombs“. Such bombs have been prepared to assassinate US leaders in the event of war, according to him.[4] Lunev states that he had personally looked for hiding places for weapons caches in the Shenandoah Valley area[1] and that “it is surprisingly easy to smuggle nuclear weapons into the US, either across the Mexican border or using a small transport missile that can slip undetected when launched from a Russian airplane.[1]

    U.S. Congressman Curt Weldon supported claims by Lunev but noted that Lunev had “exaggerated things” according to the FBI.[5] Searches of the areas identified by Lunev, who admitted that he never planted any weapons in the US, have been conducted, “but law-enforcement officials have never found such weapons caches, with or without portable nuclear weapons.”[6]

  • Ex-Soviet Spy Testifies on Hidden Weapons
    by https://www.latimes.com/
    A former Soviet spy testified at a congressional hearing in Los Angeles on Monday that Russian intelligence operatives placed weapons and communications caches–perhaps even small nuclear devices–in California and other states as part of a plan to destabilize the United States through sabotage.
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    Those caches, hidden during the Cold War and perhaps for years afterward, were to be used by elite Russian commandos to attack political leaders, military installations and oil pipelines, power plants and other civilian targets in the event of war or increased political tensions between the two superpowers, according to Stanislav Lunev.
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    Lunev was the star witness at the field hearing of the House Committee on Government Reform. A former colonel, he was billed as the highest-ranking member of the Russian military intelligence agency known as the GRU ever to defect to the United States.
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