Diesel_dyk
Object in mirror will feel larger than it appears
+178|6413|Truthistan
I've been searching for information on the Internet about the plot by the KGB to destroy the American economy by dumping about $500 Billion dollars. I remember reading about the plan where the KGB saved up billions of dollars with the idea that a sudden release of the money would cause the American economy to collapse. I can't find any information about it now.

I think it happened in the 1980s, but maybe n the early 1990s. The plan involved funneling the money through German or Swiss bankers. they dumped the cash on the market and nothing really happened, it was just absorbed into the market.

I wanted to read up on it because I wonder if the influx of billions coincided with the dot.com/tech sector bubble... which was the first bubble in a daisy chain of bubbles that lead up to todays crash.... And as you know Putin is ex-KGB.....

Anyway any info you can share, or web links

Thanks
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,991|7051|949

Putin IS KGB.  It's like a street gang: once you're in the only way to leave is death.

I have never heard of this, but I am wondering if you will be able to find anything reputable, or if that is even a plausible scenario.
jsnipy
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+3,277|6941|...

sounds far fetched.
Diesel_dyk
Object in mirror will feel larger than it appears
+178|6413|Truthistan
I read about it and saw it on TV... it did happen.
It was laughed off at the time because daily transactions in US dollars amounted to $1.2 or $1.4 trillion at the time, so $500 billion was seen as the KGB throwing away money. I'm going solely on what I remember and you would think that this info would be easy to find. but I can't find anything.
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,991|7051|949

It's probably one of those "we tried to make Castro's beard fall out" types of things where there is a grain of truth behind the 400-ton pile of dirt.
SgtHeihn
Should have ducked
+394|6906|Ham Lake, MN (Fucking Cold)

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

It's probably one of those "we tried to make Castro's beard fall out" types of things where there is a grain of truth behind the 400-ton pile of dirt.
Or the radioactive cigars
ATG
Banned
+5,233|6948|Global Command
When our markets go down 10% theirs goes down 20.
Parker
isteal
+1,452|6813|The Gem Saloon
lol the KGB never saw 500 billion in their whole existence.
they never even had a wet dream about that much money...
SEREVENT
MASSIVE G STAR
+605|6526|Birmingham, UK

jsnipy wrote:

sounds far fetched.
No.

The Nazi's tried to do something like this to the British economy.

Apparantly they managed to make a real currency machine or something, and were planning on flooding millions of pounds into Britain.
Pug
UR father's brother's nephew's former roommate
+652|6961|Texas - Bigger than France

SEREVENT wrote:

jsnipy wrote:

sounds far fetched.
No.

The Nazi's tried to do something like this to the British economy.

Apparantly they managed to make a real currency machine or something, and were planning on flooding millions of pounds into Britain.
Silly Germans.

It would take more than millions of pounds to sink Britain.

@ OP...I remember reading a Clancy novel about hacking the stock market.  I think it was the one where Ryan found out about the plot from some obscure tid bit of CIA intelligence, no one believes him, a war/conflict happens, and then Ryan finds out another obscure tid bit of intelligence, talks with the enemy and the conflict is quickly resolved.  oooo...wait.  That's evey Clancy novel, sorry I can't be more specific.

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