Ah yes: Israeli spies blackmailing US intelligence officers, and "creating the terrorists."

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Subject: Ah yes: Israeli spies blackmailing US intelligence officers,
and "creating the terrorists."
Date: Jan 6, 2008 11:02 AM

Excellent. Israeli wiretapping and blackmailing US agents and top
officials to
be worked into the network where the Israelis create the terrorist
targets by giving
them the information on how to make a bomb.

Just as suspected.

*This* is gonna really be the stink of all stinks. Because it fits
what we already
know, is apparent from all the shenanigans combined, the non-
investigation of 911-ThermateGate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LecYbWM5Oao

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece
From The Sunday Times
January 6, 2008
For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets

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.

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.

“If you made public all the information that the FBI have on this
case, you will
see very high-level people going through criminal trials,” she said.

Her story shows just how much the West was infiltrated by foreign
states seeking
nuclear secrets. It illustrates how western government officials
turned a blind
eye to, or were even helping, countries such as Pakistan acquire bomb
technology.

The wider nuclear network has been monitored for many years by a joint
Anglo-American
intelligence effort. But rather than shut it down, investigations by
law enforcement
bodies such as the FBI and Britain’s Revenue & Customs have been
aborted to
preserve diplomatic relations.

Edmonds, a fluent speaker of Turkish and Farsi, was recruited by the
FBI in the
aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Her previous claims about
incompetence inside
the FBI have been well documented in America.

She has given evidence to closed sessions of Congress and the 9/11
commission, but
many of the key points of her testimony have remained secret. She has
now decided
to divulge some of that information after becoming disillusioned with
the US authorities’
failure to act.

One of Edmonds’s main roles in the FBI was to translate thousands of
hours of conversations
by Turkish diplomatic and political targets that had been covertly
recorded by the
agency.

A backlog of tapes had built up, dating back to 1997, which were
needed for an FBI
investigation into links between the Turks and Pakistani, Israeli and
US targets.
Before she left the FBI in 2002 she heard evidence that pointed to
money laundering,
drug imports and attempts to acquire nuclear and conventional weapons
technology.

“What I found was damning,” she said. “While the FBI was
investigating, several
arms of the government were shielding what was going on.”

The Turks and Israelis had planted “moles” in military and academic
institutions
which handled nuclear technology. Edmonds says there were several
transactions of
nuclear material every month, with the Pakistanis being among the
eventual buyers.
“The network appeared to be obtaining information from every nuclear
agency in the
United States,” she said.

They were helped, she says, by the high-ranking State Department
official who provided
some of their moles – mainly PhD students – with security clearance to
work in sensitive
nuclear research facilities. These included the Los Alamos nuclear
laboratory in
New Mexico, which is responsible for the security of the US nuclear
deterrent.

In one conversation Edmonds heard the official arranging to pick up a
$15,000 cash
bribe. The package was to be dropped off at an agreed location by
someone in the
Turkish diplomatic community who was working for the network.

The Turks, she says, often acted as a conduit for the Inter-Services
Intelligence
(ISI), Pakistan’s spy agency, because they were less likely to attract
suspicion.
Venues such as the American Turkish Council in Washington were used to
drop off
the cash, which was picked up by the official.

Edmonds said: “I heard at least three transactions like this over a
period of 2½
years. There are almost certainly more.”

The Pakistani operation was led by General Mahmoud Ahmad, then the ISI
chief.

Intercepted communications showed Ahmad and his colleagues stationed
in Washington
were in constant contact with attach�s in the Turkish embassy.

Intelligence analysts say that members of the ISI were close to Al-
Qaeda before
and after 9/11. Indeed, Ahmad was accused of sanctioning a $100,000
wire payment
to Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, immediately before the
attacks.

The results of the espionage were almost certainly passed to Abdul
Qadeer Khan,
the Pakistani nuclear scientist.

Khan was close to Ahmad and the ISI. While running Pakistan’s nuclear
programme,
he became a millionaire by selling atomic secrets to Libya, Iran and
North Korea.
He also used a network of companies in America and Britain to obtain
components
for a nuclear programme.

Khan caused an alert among western intelligence agencies when his
aides met Osama
Bin Laden. “We were aware of contact between A Q Khan’s people and Al-
Qaeda,” a
former CIA officer said last week. “There was absolute panic when we
initially discovered
this, but it kind of panned out in the end.”

It is likely that the nuclear secrets stolen from the United States
would have been
sold to a number of rogue states by Khan.

Edmonds was later to see the scope of the Pakistani connections when
it was revealed
that one of her fellow translators at the FBI was the daughter of a
Pakistani embassy
official who worked for Ahmad. The translator was given top secret
clearance despite
protests from FBI investigators.

Edmonds says packages containing nuclear secrets were delivered by
Turkish operatives,
using their cover as members of the diplomatic and military community,
to contacts
at the Pakistani embassy in Washington.

Following 9/11, a number of the foreign operatives were taken in for
questioning
by the FBI on suspicion that they knew about or somehow aided the
attacks.

Edmonds said the State Department official once again proved useful.
“A primary
target would call the official and point to names on the list and say,
‘We need
to get them out of the US because we can’t afford for them to spill
the beans’,”
she said. “The official said that he would ‘take care of it’.”

The four suspects on the list were released from interrogation and
extradited.

Edmonds also claims that a number of senior officials in the Pentagon
had helped
Israeli and Turkish agents.

“The people provided lists of potential moles from Pentagon-related
institutions
who had access to databases concerning this information,” she said.

“The handlers, who were part of the diplomatic community, would then
try to recruit
those people to become moles for the network. 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.”

One of the Pentagon figures under investigation was Lawrence Franklin,
a former
Pentagon analyst, who was jailed in 2006 for passing US defence
information to lobbyists
and sharing classified information with an Israeli diplomat.

“He was one of the top people providing information and packages
during 2000 and
2001,” she said.

Once acquired, the nuclear secrets could have gone anywhere. The FBI
monitored Turkish
diplomats who were selling copies of the information to the highest
bidder.

Edmonds said: “Certain greedy Turkish operators would make copies of
the material
and look around for buyers. They had agents who would find potential
buyers.”

In summer 2000, Edmonds says the FBI monitored one of the agents as he
met two Saudi
Arabian businessmen in Detroit to sell nuclear information that had
been stolen
from an air force base in Alabama. She overheard the agent saying: “We
have a package
and we’re going to sell it for $250,000.”

Edmonds’s employment with the FBI lasted for just six months. In March
2002 she
was dismissed after accusing a colleague of covering up illicit
activity involving
Turkish nationals.

She has always claimed that she was victimised for being outspoken and
was vindicated
by an Office of the Inspector General review of her case three years
later. It found
that one of the contributory reasons for her sacking was that she had
made valid
complaints.

The US attorney-general has imposed a state secrets privilege order on
her, which
prevents her revealing more details of the FBI’s methods and current
investigations.

Her allegations were heard in a closed session of Congress, but no
action has been
taken and she continues to campaign for a public hearing.

She was able to discuss the case with The Sunday Times because, by the
end of January
2002, the justice department had shut down the programme.

The senior official in the State Department no longer works there.
Last week he
denied all of Edmonds’s allegations: “If you are calling me to say
somebody said
that I took money, that’s outrageous . . . I do not have anything to
say about such
stupid ridiculous things as this.”

In researching this article, The Sunday Times has talked to two FBI
officers (one
serving, one former) and two former CIA sources who worked on nuclear
proliferation.
While none was aware of specific allegations against officials she
names, they did
provide overlapping corroboration of Edmonds’s story.

One of the CIA sources confirmed that the Turks had acquired nuclear
secrets from
the United States and shared the information with Pakistan and Israel.
“We have
no indication that Turkey has its own nuclear ambitions. But the Turks
are traders.
To my knowledge they became big players in the late 1990s,” the source
said.

How Pakistan got the bomb, then sold it to the highest bidders

1965 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan’s foreign minister, says: “If India
builds the
bomb we will eat grass . . . but we will get one of our own”

1974 Nuclear programme becomes increased priority as India tests a
nuclear device

1976 Abdul Qadeer Khan, a scientist, steals secrets from Dutch uranium
plant. Made
head of his nation’s nuclear programme by Bhutto, now prime minister

1976 onwards Clandestine network established to obtain materials and
technology
for uranium enrichment from the West

1985 Pakistan produces weapons-grade uranium for the first time

1989-91 Khan’s network sells Iran nuclear weapons information and
technology

1991-97 Khan sells weapons technology to North Korea and Libya

1998 India tests nuclear bomb and Pakistan follows with a series of
nuclear tests.
Khan says: “I never had any doubts I was building a bomb. We had to do
it”

2001 CIA chief George Tenet gathers officials for crisis summit on the
proliferation
of nuclear technology from Pakistan to other countries

2001 Weeks before 9/11, Khan’s aides meet Osama Bin Laden to discuss
an Al-Qaeda
nuclear device

2001 After 9/11 proliferation crisis becomes secondary as Pakistan is
seen as important
ally in war on terror

2003 Libya abandons nuclear weapons programme and admits acquiring
components through
Pakistani nuclear scientists

2004 Khan placed under house arrest and confesses to supplying Iran,
Libya and North
Korea with weapons technology. He is pardoned by President Pervez
Musharraf

2006 North Korea tests a nuclear bomb

2007 Renewed fears that bomb may fall into hands of Islamic extremists
as killing
of Benazir Bhutto throws country into turmoil

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