MacCaulay
Banned
This was something I wrote down while I was working on a story. I figured I'd post it here. I was thinking of turning it into a story.
1975: Soviet economists and mathemeticians pitch "Coldstone Project": where the Soviets will buy almost a billion dollars in Western stocks through front companies. This will allow them to launch an economic attack on the economies of the West by selling the stocks off in a rush.
1989: Coldstone Project is pulled because of funding cuts in the Soviet state.
1992: A Russian walk-in to the US embassy in Malaysia reveals intitial information about Soviet Coldstone Project in exchange for immunity from corruption charages. He reports he was ordered to feed false information on the state of the dollar to the PM and the Minister of Finance.
1993: An ex-Gazprom accountant at a CIA safehouse comments on finding financial irregularies in company profits. Upon investigation he found that a small percentage was being syphoned off to an account in the Isle of Man under the name "Coldstone."
A search for other Coldstone Program members and materials finds that the probably head is a mafia boss. Most/all of the funds have disappeared.
A public German release of Stasi documents reveals information on a Coldstone ring operations in Bonn in the 1980s. The CIA and GSG9 arrest Johann Schroeder, a former econ advisor to Helmut Kohl. When they arrest him, they find the operations plans for Coldstone in West Germany.
1994: Agent John Sims arrives with an uncovered original briefing to Brezhnev about Coldstone. It is checked against Schroeder and the Malay's debrieftings and found to be genuine.
1995: A feasibility study into updating Coldstone is authorized by the DDOafter several CIA and NSA analysts sign a paper stating it's possible utilization in the future for the use of computer algorythms to replace Soviet manual analysis.
The group is named Project Keystroke, after the computer program.
Study finds Keystroke 1.0 results are deivers and as desired, but hard to predict. The team is allowed to bring in an outside economist to assist with results predictions and refinements.
Gary Tapert, a U of Iowa economis with past ties to the NSA, is tapped to become part of the group.
1996: CIA Director Bill Casey orders the team to modifty Keystroke 1.0 and make a tracking version to assist in the capture of Bosnian war criminals in hiding.
Keystroke Mod 1 begins tracking 3 Serbian officers, by their use of credit cards and checks. The team informs Casey it has the ability to freeze the accounts of the officers, limiting their movement. He says "no" to the idea and tells the team to concentrate on observation.
1997: During Operation Desert Fox, the team is approached by the Middle East desk about shutting down the Irqi black market oil trade. The team has contingency plans and present them. During the cruise missile and air strikes, several dummy Swiss accounts used to pay Irqi crews on the tankers are hacked and emptied by the team using Keystroke 2.0.
CENTCOM is briefed into the program, as the Keystroke team begins working on a financial attack to cripple the Hussein regime. This plan is integrated into various US warplans.
This is all I wrote, but I had stuff in my mind all the way to 2011.
1975: Soviet economists and mathemeticians pitch "Coldstone Project": where the Soviets will buy almost a billion dollars in Western stocks through front companies. This will allow them to launch an economic attack on the economies of the West by selling the stocks off in a rush.
1989: Coldstone Project is pulled because of funding cuts in the Soviet state.
1992: A Russian walk-in to the US embassy in Malaysia reveals intitial information about Soviet Coldstone Project in exchange for immunity from corruption charages. He reports he was ordered to feed false information on the state of the dollar to the PM and the Minister of Finance.
1993: An ex-Gazprom accountant at a CIA safehouse comments on finding financial irregularies in company profits. Upon investigation he found that a small percentage was being syphoned off to an account in the Isle of Man under the name "Coldstone."
A search for other Coldstone Program members and materials finds that the probably head is a mafia boss. Most/all of the funds have disappeared.
A public German release of Stasi documents reveals information on a Coldstone ring operations in Bonn in the 1980s. The CIA and GSG9 arrest Johann Schroeder, a former econ advisor to Helmut Kohl. When they arrest him, they find the operations plans for Coldstone in West Germany.
1994: Agent John Sims arrives with an uncovered original briefing to Brezhnev about Coldstone. It is checked against Schroeder and the Malay's debrieftings and found to be genuine.
1995: A feasibility study into updating Coldstone is authorized by the DDOafter several CIA and NSA analysts sign a paper stating it's possible utilization in the future for the use of computer algorythms to replace Soviet manual analysis.
The group is named Project Keystroke, after the computer program.
Study finds Keystroke 1.0 results are deivers and as desired, but hard to predict. The team is allowed to bring in an outside economist to assist with results predictions and refinements.
Gary Tapert, a U of Iowa economis with past ties to the NSA, is tapped to become part of the group.
1996: CIA Director Bill Casey orders the team to modifty Keystroke 1.0 and make a tracking version to assist in the capture of Bosnian war criminals in hiding.
Keystroke Mod 1 begins tracking 3 Serbian officers, by their use of credit cards and checks. The team informs Casey it has the ability to freeze the accounts of the officers, limiting their movement. He says "no" to the idea and tells the team to concentrate on observation.
1997: During Operation Desert Fox, the team is approached by the Middle East desk about shutting down the Irqi black market oil trade. The team has contingency plans and present them. During the cruise missile and air strikes, several dummy Swiss accounts used to pay Irqi crews on the tankers are hacked and emptied by the team using Keystroke 2.0.
CENTCOM is briefed into the program, as the Keystroke team begins working on a financial attack to cripple the Hussein regime. This plan is integrated into various US warplans.
This is all I wrote, but I had stuff in my mind all the way to 2011.