LOL...That would be Bill "Unimpeachable" Burkett.
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.
Story sounds like pure BS, yet with what we know abouot the bumblers over at the CIA, maybe not.
Uh... Central NEWS agency?
It's Valerie Plames Fault
Now where have I heard the phrase "unimpeachable source" before?
Just click on keywords "ruudlubbers" and "unimpeachable source" and everything will become clear.
India is always institutionally critical of Pakistan.
Keep it in mind. Also keep in mind the US CIA is often inept.
Out of character for the CIA though, in that Dr. Khan is smart--unlike some of their other famous hires.
....KHAN!!!!!.........KHAN!!!..........KHAN!!..........
the previous was for all the trekkies out there.
That's my question too.
CIA - is not Central News Agency
Somebody has their wires crossed somewhere.
More likely CNN than CIA.
What do you think of this one?
CIA knew in 1998, does it therefore tie into the clintons and Los Alamos and Dr. Wen Ho Lee???
i guess every tin foil hatter on the planet wil believe this BS
Why would President Bush be involved in it in 1998?
it is a typical India Vs Pakistan BS
That is what I thought.............Looks like the MSM is really all about the destruction of the US of A.
<< Story sounds like pure BS ... >
Story is!
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