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Tape: Scientist offers to build nuke bomb targeting New York
Yahoo AP ^ | 1-29-15 | Russell Contreas

Posted on 01/29/2015 2:48:22 PM PST by windcliff

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A disgruntled, former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist promised to build 40 nuclear weapons for Venezuela in 10 years and design a bomb targeted for New York City in exchange for "money and power," according to secret FBI recordings released Wednesday.

In the recordings, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni tells an agent posing as a Venezuelan official that the bombs would prevent the United States from invading the oil-rich nation and brags to his wife that the passing of secrets would make him wealthy.

"I'm going to be the boss with money and power," the naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina is heard saying. "I'm not an American anymore. This is it."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: argentina; bomb; duplicate; losalamos; mascheroni; nuclearbomb; venezuela; wmd
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1 posted on 01/29/2015 2:48:22 PM PST by windcliff
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To: windcliff

Fact is, anyone with a brain and hours of time to read can build a nuclear weapon. That is of course, if said person can get their hands on the materials. Which takes resources beyond any one mans imagination.


2 posted on 01/29/2015 2:50:54 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: windcliff

Wow! Kill him!


3 posted on 01/29/2015 2:51:06 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: windcliff

Nice and tight hiring practices our govt has.

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4 posted on 01/29/2015 2:51:09 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: windcliff

Enjoy your supermax prison stay for the rest of your life. Also enjoy other prisoners nuking your ass on a daily basis.


5 posted on 01/29/2015 2:52:06 PM PST by sagar
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To: FreedomStar3028

Well sure, it’s been done many times.

I’m sure you can find a cite.


6 posted on 01/29/2015 2:52:33 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: windcliff

Firing squad.


7 posted on 01/29/2015 3:03:52 PM PST by Ray76 (al Qaeda is in the Oval Office (and John Boehner is their craven servant))
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To: windcliff
IF this guy's plan had gone to completion, he would have gotten a bullet through his brain before he realized any of that wonderful wealth and power.
8 posted on 01/29/2015 3:03:58 PM PST by SkiKnee
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To: windcliff

Welcome to America, cigarette? blindfold? last request?


9 posted on 01/29/2015 3:04:02 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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“The U.S. government did not allege Venezuela sought U.S. secrets.”

Seems like the government entrapped him then. How else did he end up talking to a government agent and thinking he was a representative of Venezuela?


10 posted on 01/29/2015 3:04:58 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: windcliff

No doubt he will not be a big boss in Leavenworth. He just might not like it there when he is assigned Bubba as his cell mate and new best friend.. However when he gazes at the plains of Kansas, he can imagine the pampas of Argentina.


11 posted on 01/29/2015 3:05:52 PM PST by allendale
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To: FreedomStar3028

I guess he’s limited his demands for”money and Power”because the Venezuelans don’t have any”Loo-Roll”???


12 posted on 01/29/2015 3:06:11 PM PST by bandleader
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“Which takes resources beyond any one mans imagination.”

Well, depending on what type of weapon. You could make a “dirty bomb” pretty easily with stuff available to the public, you would just have to collect a whole lot of it!


13 posted on 01/29/2015 3:06:11 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: SaxxonWoods; FreedomStar3028

Radioactive Boy lives! Student who sparked panic in 1996 after he built a nuclear reactor in his shed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2506549/Uh-oh-Radioactive-Boy-Scout-built-nuclear-reactor-Detroit-shed-sparking-evacuation-40-000-wants-invent-lightbulb-lasts-100-years.html


14 posted on 01/29/2015 3:06:11 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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15 posted on 01/29/2015 3:09:54 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: windcliff

It is getting to the point where we have to profile for persons NOT likely to betray to grant access, rather than likely to betray to deny access.

The bar has been raised.

Roosevelt is gaining sympathy for interning the Japanese, though now we have better methods.


16 posted on 01/29/2015 3:10:40 PM PST by cicero2k
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To: longfellow

“Welcome to America, cigarette? blindfold? last request?”

No cigarette, that would be harmful to his health, not to mention the second hand smoke and it’s effect on the firing squad members.


17 posted on 01/29/2015 3:24:43 PM PST by duffee (Dump the Chairman of thparoled in prison.e Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosIf ef.)
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To: windcliff
I sold them a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts

18 posted on 01/29/2015 3:25:26 PM PST by Bobalu (Programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file)
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To: windcliff
...Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni tells an agent posing as a Venezuelan official...

If you're up to Dr. Evil stuff, you should just assume you're talking to FBI or other federal agents.

19 posted on 01/29/2015 3:30:10 PM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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"I'm going to be the boss with money and power," the naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina is heard saying. "I'm not an American anymore. This is it."

Doing the jobs real American citizens won't do.
20 posted on 01/29/2015 3:30:21 PM PST by clearcarbon
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