Interested in buying a nuclear-capable Soviet MiG-29 bomber from a former Soviet republic at a bargain basement price? Well if so, have I got the hot doc for you! It’s a secret 22 September 1997 State Department Cable sent from the American Embassy in Moldova to the Office of the Secretary of State. It informed the Secretary that the Embassy that Moldovan officials were shopping 27 MiGs, and suggested that the US snap them up before another (rouge?) state did. It reminds me a bit of the fictional Lord or War (Nick Cage’s character is based upon Oleg Orlov) and the contemporaneous “Merchant of Death,” Viktor Bout. (more…)
