WI: 9/11 KGB revenge for losing the Cold War

Let say that in 1971 the leadership of the USSR made a plan for retaliation against the United States, should the russians ever loose the Cold War.

The KGB sees the World Trade Center as symbol of America dominance and Capitalism and decides it must be the main target in "Operation Blacknight". Codename for the what eventuelly becomes 9/11.
To disguise their russian involvement KGB approach extremist Muslim elements in Middle East in 1973 during the arab/Israely war a the plan is set in motion.

What do You Guys think of this scenario??

/Fred
 
If you mean ex-KGB Agents, it's going to end real fast. The Russian SVR(the KGB's successor) swoops in and captures the men in question and hands them over to the US.

If you mean the SVR does it... well, you just started a major war.
 
The Soviets are not idiotic enough to attack the Americans on their own soil through a large scale terrorist attack such as this, whether it's by proxy or not. If they did however lose all semblance of sanity, they would have no interest in spending and allocating resources and risking a nuclear war by attacking a building which holds little to not strategic value--if they did, they'd make sure it was worth the while, such as an attack on a CVNBG.
 
The Soviets are not idiotic enough to attack the Americans on their own soil through a large scale terrorist attack such as this, whether it's by proxy or not. If they did however lose all semblance of sanity, they would have no interest in spending and allocating resources and risking a nuclear war by attacking a building which holds little to not strategic value--if they did, they'd make sure it was worth the while, such as an attack on a CVNBG.

You know I read that Brezhnev to poison Ronald Reagan. So why not a terrorist attack against the US?
 

NapoleonXIV

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The KGB were not terrorists. Why would they want to anger the US to hurt their own country?

If they wanted to get "revenge" for losing the cold war they would do something like stealing a great deal of gold and then either keeping it for themselves (most likely) or even giving it away in some sort of great gesture.
 

NapoleonXIV

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You know I read that Brezhnev to poison Ronald Reagan. So why not a terrorist attack against the US?

Because it makes absolutely and completely no sense?

Kill RR would put another Pres in, one who might be more amenable to communist goals. Blowing up the WTC would do nothing more than anger the American populace mightily at whoever did it, while actually hurting the US only negligibly if at all in actual fact.
 
Because it makes absolutely and completely no sense?

Kill RR would put another Pres in, one who might be more amenable to communist goals. Blowing up the WTC would do nothing more than anger the American populace mightily at whoever did it, while actually hurting the US only negligibly if at all in actual fact.

The Russians did do stupid things so why not a terrorist attack? Maybe we could say that a roque element of the KGB did it?
 
You know I read that Brezhnev to poison Ronald Reagan. So why not a terrorist attack against the US?

Poison can be shown as a natural death even to the best doctors and the new President Bush would be a far different adversary. SO regardless of the massive risks there is a logical behind that kind of attempt. I mean look at JFK and Castro.

Now a major terrorist attack lets just think about the implications of this. Thousands of Americans dead some will claim martyred against communist aggression. If Reagan were hard imagine the Pressure the soviets would go under now. The CIA and FBI took a lot of heat correctly in some cases after 9/11 however with thousands of Americans dead they won't just shut up about it.

If this happens during the cold war the Soviets lose a lot. Firstly a lot of contacts in Western left leaning movements and a number of co-operators who worked for the soviets for ideological grounds. There will be a “gloves off” approach to the SU. With the public baying for blood I don't think the President or Congress will be happy to defy the peoples anger. Maybe not war however lots and lots of extra money and equipment to Afghanistan and other locations.

It makes about as much sense as having the Soviet Ambassador walking into the Whitehouse with an AK-47.
 
I stil says some of the guys connected to Kremlin were as mentally stabel as Hitler was.

But still since this is a fictional timeline. bin Ladin does 9/11 payed for and planned by the KGB in the 1970s. Russian involvement is hidden.
 
I stil says some of the guys connected to Kremlin were as mentally stabel as Hitler was.
But still since this is a fictional timeline. bin Ladin does 9/11 payed for and planned by the KGB in the 1970s. Russian involvement is hidden.


Hidden? Really? There will be people involved who would get everything from the CIA if they talked. 3,000 + dead Americans. I don't care if the KGB has Osama in a safe under the Chairman’s bed. Everybody talks....
 
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