On June 19th, 1981, at around 930 p.m. after a long day of meeting with world leaders in preparation

for the 7th G7 summit in Quebec, U.S. President Ronald Reagan was escorted back to his room at the historic Chateau Montebello Hotel.

At some point thereafter, he sat down and made brief notes about the day in his diary.

The hotel is a marvelous piece of engineering,

totally made up of logs.

Had a one-on-one with Chancellor Schmidt, he was really down and in a pessimistic mood about the world.

Following, met with President Miterin, explained our economic program and that high interest rates were not of our doing."

What French President Francois Miterin actually told Reagan that Spring Evening in Canada would go on to hugely influence the course of the Cold War.

And it seems that Reagan knew it right away.

The information was so top secret,

so sensitive that even writing it down in his own personal diary

was too risky. Hi and welcome to Sabriasen's malicious life I'm Ran Levin.

In this episode Operation Kudu and what might have been the world's first supply chain cyber attack. Gus Weiss was an economist, but by 1974 he'd seekously leveraged his PhD into a position on the National Security Council

as a Foreign Affairs officer under President's Nixon and Reagan.

He was a small guy described by Wired magazine as having quote

liquidy blue eyes and an aristocratic air. He stood five feet seven inches and in later years developed a slight hunch. He spoke with a breezy southern accent and wore japers suits.

The auto-immune disease alopecia, which he developed as a teenager, left him hairless from head to toe.

He wore a chestnut-colored wig and smelled vaguely of to pay adhesive.

He drifted off into daydreams at inopportune moments.

He laughed with a high-pitched giggle.

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In and around the halls of government officials and journalists have variously described

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