In some of Bob Lazar’s more recent interviews, he mentions that Russians were involved at S-4 before being “escorted out” after the U.S. discovered something important. What I don’t get is how that would realistically work given the Cold War context. We’re talking late 80s. U.S. and USSR tensions were still very real, and highly classified military programs (especially something as sensitive as reverse-engineering non-human tech) would presumably be on a strict need-to-know basis. Even in known cases of limited cooperation (like arms treaties or space-related agreements), there were heavy controls, verification, and political optics involved. Letting foreign adversaries anywhere near a black project like S-4 seems like a huge stretch. Also worth noting this detail wasn’t part of his original 1989 story and seems to have come up much later. submitted by /u/ExperiencedGentleman [link] [comments]