A pro-government Russian television network is working on its own answer to the popular new show Chernobyl, which will implicate CIA sabotage in the 1986 nuclear disaster.

HBO's five-part series, which stars Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgård, this week became the highest ever rated show worldwide and has proved a hit among Russian viewers, who have noted its attention to mundane detail of Soviet life.

But the show has been met with fierce criticism from pro-Kremlin media, which has argued the production is Western propaganda that exaggerates the extent of the disaster and the negligence of the Soviet government, and stereotypes Russians.

Now the Russian state has stepped in to correct the balance, with the Culture Ministry reportedly providing almost $500,000 in funding to a new production that will focus around a group of KGB officers tasked with uncovering a CIA spy who has infiltrated the plant.

The implication appears to be that the plot shows an American spy sabotaged the reactor. “One theory holds that Americans had infiltrated the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and many historians do not deny that, on the day of the explosion, an agent of the enemy’s intelligence services was present at the station,” director Alexei Muradov was quoted as saying in the Moscow Times.