Soviet military hardware that needed a little help from Western technology

[phrenzy]

I can't even remember where, but I recently read that the topol ICBM was based in part on US designs but it was a very fuzzy allusion that I couldn't find much else about. It's got me curious about the topic and I was wondering if there were any good sources on technology stolen by the Soviets during the cold war?

I've recently seen a documentary on an east german operation to get consumer and dual use electronics out of western Europe (though that was is secondary topic) and another on the tu-144 that might be a little controversial (I know there is a little disagreement on how accurate the name "Concordski" was/is).

Last semester I used a translated Russian report on inferring Chinese military developments from the technology they were importing/trying to import/trying to aquire by other means that was quite interesting but I couldn't find a similar source for the USSR during the cold war.

I'd also be interested in any high profile known examples of military hardware with links to borrowed technology as well.

 

[TomS]

Soviet solid-fuel rocket technology seems to have owed at least something to espionage.

http://www.omnilogos.com/2015/02/rocket-science-and-russian-spies.html

 

[Boxman]

Communist spy Julius Rosenberg gave the Soviets American proximity fuse technology which was reportedly used on the SA-2 (S-75 Dvina) Surface to Air Missile which itself was used to shoot down the U-2 piloted by Gary Powers, not to mention close to a couple hundred aircraft over Vietnam.


See:
The Real History of The Cold War: A New Look at the Past, by Alan Axelrod

 

[Grey Havoc]

You may find this 1985 report of some interest.

 

[CJGibson]

I might be completely wrong here, but I seem to recall from an edition of Soviet Military Power that the Paris-Dakar winning Kamaz truck and its production plant had western help.

Chris
(not a truck buff, but I'd have a Kamaz. Just for the school run.)