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A Q Khan was in CIA pay since 1975!
NewKerala.com ^ | 21 Nov 2005

Posted on 11/22/2005 10:47:11 PM PST by F14 Pilot

New Delhi: New evidence has emerged to suggest that Dr. A.Q. Khan,
the father of Pakistan's nuclear program, was in the pay and
protection of the Central News Agency (CIA) in the United States since
1975.

According to a report appearing in The Tribune newspaper, former
Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, is named as the source of this
startling, but unimpeachable source of information.

Speaking in interview with VPRO Argos Radio on August 9, 2005, Dr.
Lubbers revealed that Dr. Khan was first arrested in 1975 for
espionage and again in 1988 for entering Holland illegally. Lubbers
said that on both occasions, he was set free after the CIA intervened.

The paper further goes on to quote Dr. Lubbers as saying that in 1992,
Dr. Khan wanted to visit Holland to see his ailing father-in-law (his
wife is a Dutch). The case for visa was sponsored by no less a person
than the then head of the Dutch secret service, BVD, Arthur Dokters
Van Leeuwen.

Dr. Lubbers also confirmed that a BVD person received Dr Khan on his
arrival at Schipol Airport. The BVD was presumably acting under
instructions from American intelligence agencies.

“If you were to study the archives, you would find that the American
intelligence agencies - I am absolutely certain of it - kept a record of
how closely they watched the man and what he was upto, etc. They
thought as such they were doing a terrific job,” The Tribune quotes Dr.
Lubbers as saying in his interview with VPRO Argod Radio.

When the interviewer pointed out that Khan was allowed to continue
his activities in spite of the information about his clandestine
activities, Dr. Lubbers replied, “Yes, but that is the shortcoming of the
management. And yes, that's when we saw it was the leader of the
free world. And we do take quite seriously the fact that they did a lot
of good things. But they were not able to subdue the monster of
proliferation, to put it that way.”

He, however, said that the Dutch secret service was very prompt in
informing the CIA about Dr. Khan's nuclear proliferation activities, but
was clearly told to let him be.

“The BVD reported it to its counterpart in Washington. The counterpart
in Washington then follows a course that amounts to let him go and
we will gain more information. And that is where things start to go
wrong.”

According to the paper, the latest report from Vienna talks of the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) informing its Board of
Governors that Iran had turned over to the IAEA fresh documents that
give details, for the first time, about technology that Iran was offered
in 1987 by Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan of Pakistan.

According to this report, included in the engineering drawings and
other technology offered to the Iranians were diagrams about how to
form uranium metal into “hemispherical spheres”, a description that
would suggest the basic steps toward creating bomb cores. Such
spheres are needed for the Hiroshima type of atomic bombs.

It is to be noted that this cooperation from Iran has come about after
the September 24 IAEA resolution. In the previous 30 months of
investigation and inspection by the IAEA, Iran did not produce similar
evidence. The new documentation will reveal that Dr Khan's
proliferation started as far back as 1987.

U.S. and British authorities, including President George W Bush, Prime
Minister Tony Blair and former CIA chief George Tenet, claimed that
Dr Khan's activities came to their notice only around 1998 and they
busted the Khan proliferation ring in 2003.