REPORT: RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS WERE TAKING SECRET IRAQI FILES (CIA is Interested)

Russia Journal Daily ^ | April 9, 2003 | wire staff

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Russian Newspaper 'Nezavisimaya Gazeta' reported Wednesday that United States forces opened up fire on a Russian diplomatic convoy in an attempt to sieze classified materials it was taking out of Iraq-the outcome of a dangerous game involving the SVR (Russian Foriegn Intelligence Service-a KBG successor) and the Central Intelligence Agency.

'One was taking out the Iraq archives, and the other was trying to hamper it by force,' the newspaper said.

It is said that the firing on the vehicle apparently intended to incapcitate the vehicles but spare the diplomats, explaining why just one person suffered a serious wound.

'They expected that the diplomats would not carry the cargo on their backs and it would be possible to sieze it,' the newspaper said, adding that the alledged plan had failed because of the Iraqis who were firing on the American CIA at the same time.

The Russian newspaper had reported earlier that Russian Intel agents had been sent to Baghdad to gather archives of the Iraqi Secret Service in case the regieme of Saddam Hussein fell.

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The plot thickens

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[aristeides]

NG: (Russian) Diplomats were taking Iraqi secret files.

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The search engine is coming up funny today..

[grammymoon]

so who has the documents now?

[kjam22]

so who has the documents now?

They are in a file on Hillary's desk.... underneath the FBI files.

[DoctorMichael]

So, who has the documents now?

Yes! Inquiring minds WANT to know.

[randita]

so who has the documents now?

My hunch is that they're being studied at this very moment at Langley.

[randita]

U.S. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow told Echo of Moscow radio on Tuesday that the Russian convoy had apparently changed its itinerary without informing U.S. officials.

Fully backs up Loftus' report last night.

The newspaper speculated that the archives could be highly valuable to Russia in three major areas: in protecting Russian interests in a postwar Iraq; in determining to what extent the Saddam regime may have financed Russian political parties and movements; and in providing Russia access to intelligence that Iraqi agents conducted in other countries.

BINGO!

[randita]

ping for more info

[Centurion2000]

Criminy ..... this is turning into a political Enron for Europe.

I hope that Bush and co. figure out the truth on this. I for one want to know how many times we've been stabbed in the back.

[mabelkitty]

Documents indicting Kofi Annan, Clintons, Gore, Putin, and Chirac in war crimes, fraud, conspiracy, money laundering, murder, etc.

It's called the "UN Oil for Food Program."

[Free Vulcan]

This ain't the Cold War Ruskies, you also ain't as good as you used to be either.

[HighRoadToChina]

BUMP those enemies out of Iraq!

[annieokie]

No No, not the "Oil for Food program". Kofi Annan stated the truth of this last week in an interview, in which he stated the "Oil for Food scheme", this may have been a Freudian slip of the tongue. He said it twice in that interview, then corrected himself and said "Oil for Food PROGRAM."

I heard they are finding stashes of this food in warehouses, that was destined for the Iraqi people, yet was intended to be traded with other countries for their arms.

[CyberAnt]

I thought all the vehicles were destroyed by fire - can Langly read ashes ...??

[randita]

No, some of the vehicles were damaged, but they were not destroyed.