For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets

[KJF]

A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.

Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office.

She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey.

Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive military and nuclear institutions.

More @ link:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece

[HamdenRice]

1. Great find! The news here is that Sibel is violating her gag order

She links the nuclear sales network to moles at State and DOD, to Pakistan ISI's Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad. Here's a sample:

Among the hours of covert tape recordings, she says she heard evidence that one well-known senior official in the US State Department was being paid by Turkish agents in Washington who were selling the information on to black market buyers, including Pakistan.

The name of the official – who has held a series of top government posts – is known to The Sunday Times. He strongly denies the claims.

However, Edmonds said: “He was aiding foreign operatives against US interests by passing them highly classified information, not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and political objectives.”

She claims that the FBI was also gathering evidence against senior Pentagon officials – including household names – who were aiding foreign agents.

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This is not merely 9/11 related. You should repost this in GD for a wider audience.

[KJF]

2. Marc Grossman

The unnamed State Department official is said to be Marc Grossman, according to Jon Gold and Luke Ryland. Grossman was also involved in the Plame Affair, so that would make sense.
http://www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/showthread.php?s=3c5e343fe7d42221aae0123861ac7c6c&t=18096

I don't know who the senior Pentagon officials are, but I would be surprised if there were no overlap with the Neo-plumbers at the Office of Special Plans.

[HamdenRice]

3. Bradblog says: US officials helped plant Turkish, Pakistani, Israeli moles

Quite explosive stuff. Apparently, Sibel talked to Bradblog before going to the Times of London. He says there is still more to the scandal -- such as that US officials helped plant Turkish, Pakistani and Israeli moles, as well as circulating damaging information about other US officials so that they could be blackmailed or bribed by foreign officials:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5518

● Foreign intelligence agents from Turkey, Israel, Pakistan and Turkey enlisted the support of high-level US officials in order to acquire a network of moles deep inside of sensitive American military and nuclear agencies, including "PhD students – with security clearance Los Alamos nuclear laboratory in New Mexico, which is responsible for the security of the US nuclear deterrent."

● Members of the diplomatic community were given lists of potential "moles" at the sensitive installations. Edmonds tells the Times: "the lists contained all their 'hooking points', which could be financial or sexual pressure points, their exact job in the Pentagon and what stuff they had access to."

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Grossman was the head of personnel for the State Dept. at the beginning of the Bush administration.