[3][4] The USSR collected western computer and scientific technology through espionage and used it for its own national defense.
Weiss suggested that the US export whatever was on the potential targets list to the USSR, but that these items be modified, meaning sourced from the CIA, the Defense Department and the FBI.
One successful notable result was a massive fire near the Urengoi starting point of the Trans-Siberian Pipeline in 1983 that could be seen from space.
[6] His body was found on the walk beneath his upstairs apartment in the Watergate building in Washington, DC.
The Post published its Weiss obituary six days after his hometown newspaper, the Nashville Tennessean, had reported his death.