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Title: FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft
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www.timesonline.co.uk
URL Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne ... nd_americas/article3216737.ece
Published: Jan 20, 2008
Author: staff
Post Date: 2008-01-20 17:22:17 by Ferret Mike
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Comments: 20
The FBI has been accused of covering up a file detailing government dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets THE FBI has been accused of covering up a key case file detailing evidence against corrupt government officials and their dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets. The assertion follows allegations made in The Sunday Times two weeks ago by Sibel Edmonds, an FBI whistleblower, who worked on the agency’s investigation of the network. Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office. She says the FBI was investigating a Turkish and Israeli-run network that paid high-ranking American officials to steal nuclear weapons secrets. These were then sold on the international black market to countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. One of the documents relating to the case was marked 203A-WF-210023. Last week, however, the FBI responded to a freedom of information request for a file of exactly the same number by claiming that it did not exist. But The Sunday Times has obtained a document signed by an FBI official showing the existence of the file. Edmonds believes the crucial file is being deliberately covered up by the FBI because its contents are explosive. She accuses the agency of an “outright lie”. “I can tell you that that file and the operations it refers to did exist from 1996 to February 2002. The file refers to the counterintelligence programme that the Department of Justice has declared to be a state secret to protect sensitive diplomatic relations,” she said. The freedom of information request had not been initiated by Edmonds. It was made quite separately by an American human rights group called the Liberty Coalition, acting on a tip-off it received from an anonymous correspondent. The letter says: “You may wish to request pertinent audio tapes and documents under FOIA from the Department of Justice, FBI-HQ and the FBI Washington field office.” It then makes a series of allegations about the contents of the file – many of which corroborate the information that Edmonds later made public. Edmonds had told this newspaper that members of the Turkish political and diplomatic community in the US had been actively acquiring nuclear secrets. They often acted as a conduit, she said, for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s spy agency, because they attracted less suspicion. She claimed corrupt government officials helped the network, and venues such as the American-Turkish Council (ATC) in Washington were used as drop-off points. The anonymous letter names a high-level government official who was allegedly secretly recorded speaking to an official at the Turkish embassy between August and December 2001. It claims the government official warned a Turkish member of the network that they should not deal with a company called Brewster Jennings because it was a CIA front company investigating the nuclear black market. The official’s warning came two years before Brewster Jennings was publicly outed when one of its staff, Valerie Plame, was revealed to be a CIA agent in a case that became a cause célèbre in the US. The letter also makes reference to wiretaps of Turkish “targets” talking to ISI intelligence agents at the Pakistani embassy in Washington and recordings of “operatives” at the ATC. Edmonds is the subject of a number of state secret gags preventing her from talking further about the investigation she witnessed. “I cannot discuss the details considering the gag orders,” she said, “but I reported all these activities to the US Congress, the inspector general of the justice department and the 9/11 commission. I told them all about what was contained in this case file number, which the FBI is now denying exists. “This gag was invoked not to protect sensitive diplomatic relations but criminal activities involving US officials who were endangering US national security.” Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert and Joe Lauria
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
I have no doubt that the FBI is lying.
This is the age of plausible denial, not adherence to the upholding of ethical conduct. But of course you are correct.
We still don't know what this is all about. I tend to think Sibel is being fairly straight with us, though.
Me too.
I think she's one of those immigrants who really cares about her new country.
If it says it was partly Israeli-run then it was no doubt approved at the highest levels of the Z.O.G. or something would've already been done about it. Just my opinion, as usual. This may be related to the AIPAC case.
Another possibility, though it may seem remote, is that the file in question is a rigged-up file used in some sort of agency security test. It may contain some disinformation suitable to be released at a specific time under circumstances designed to, as much as possible, make it appear that such foresight is not the case. Like I say, it's remote, but it's one of the first thoughts I had about this, and I hadn't mentioned it in earlier comments on this general topic. The fact that it involves very high-level pols doing what would seem to be incredibly ballsy (not to mention crazy) stuff suggests to me there may be something to this take on it.
To elaborate a little on my last post, if people believe Pakistan got stolen nuke info from US, there would be more pro-invasion sentiment. As far as SA goes, I can't recall anyone posting or blogging about a SA nuke program, yet alone one the US didn't approve. Maybe once someone mentioned it a long time ago. Guess I should get off my duff and start googling.
We've talked about the Israeli bombs that have been tested in national Party run South Africa. One of our satellites detected a 'Zoo Animal' - code word for a nuclear flash - that the testers had hoped would be missed. Israel and South Africa have had an arms trade and military reciprocity for a long time, and Israel has nukes. Who knows? Maybe they have shared them with SA.
htt p: //thirdworldtraveler.com/Global_Secrets_Lies/Israel_SAfrica.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/nuclear/part1.html
SA means Saudi Arabia there. Sorry, I thought the context was clear. You have a point in bringing the "SA" ambiguity up.
BCCI may link Saudi Arabia with the Pakistani nuclear program.
I have spent allot of time reading about the southern part of Africa, so that is naturally where I thought you were referring to.
www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2006/03/28/afx2629000.html Something here about a secret Saudi nuke program. Note it's Forbes. Can't get a heck of a lot more NWO than Forbes, I'm kinda thinking.
My assumption has been that the Saudis financed part of the Pakistani bomb via BCCI. This could just be payback of the technology.
I guess I don't know anyone who worries about South African nukes.
The Sibel Edmond movie "Kill the Messenger" elucidated that non-proliferation act signatories can receive items with dual-use. There have been scams where businesses in these countries have been used to relay items like spark gaps. South Africa was named specifically as one of the signatory countries.
I never got a grasp on what the BCCI thing was about. Wish I'd spent more time on it before you brought it up.
Seems the US did a 180 on South Africa, with MSM help the MSM never uses on Izzystan. I don't want to be cynical, but I can understand what sort of behavior that is designed to foster or to furnish plausible blow-back cover for.
I don't know why I described them as "pols" earlier. It could be elected officials, political appointees and/or bureaucrats. I have no idea. One name was mentioned earlier but I can't remember who and don't know if it's worth repeating the name anyway. It's confusing to me. Guess I need more sleep.
#2. To: DWornock (#1)
"I have no doubt that the FBI is lying."
#3. To: DWornock (#1)
One of the documents relating to the case was marked 203A-WF-210023. Last week, however, the FBI responded to a freedom of information request for a file of exactly the same number by claiming that it did not exist. But The Sunday Times has obtained a document signed by an FBI official showing the existence of the file.
#4. To: buckeye, Ferret Mike (#3)
I tend to think Sibel is being fairly straight with us...
#5. To: DWornock (#4)
#6. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
the FBI was investigating a Turkish and Israeli-run network that paid high-ranking American officials to steal nuclear weapons secrets. These were then sold on the international black market to countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
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#12. To: nobody (#8)
As far as SA goes, I can't recall anyone posting or blogging about a SA nuke program, yet alone one the US didn't approve.
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high-ranking American officials
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