Posted on 09/29/2003 12:53:47 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
1996 Waiver for Radiation Hardened Chips to China
Newly declassified documents show that President Bill Clinton personally approved the transfer to China of advanced space technology that can be used for nuclear combat. The documents show that in 1996 Clinton approved the export of radiation hardened chip sets to China.
"Waivers may be granted upon a national interest determination," states a Commerce Department document titled "U.S. Sanctions on China."
"The President has approved a series of satellite related waivers in recent months, most recently in November, 1996 for export of radiation hardened chip sets for a Chinese meteorological satellite," noted the Commerce Department documents.
These special computer chips are designed to function while being bombarded by intense radiation. Radiation hardened chips are considered critical for atomic warfare and are required by advanced nuclear tipped missiles.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents through the Freedom of Information Act, a Washington-based political watchdog group.
Several documents were withheld from release by the U.S. Commerce Department for commercial and personal privacy exemptions, but none of the documents were withheld for national security reasons. Judicial Watch is expected to appeal the withholdings.
Decade of Betrayal
U.S. intelligence sources stated that the newly released documents illustrate the extent to which the Clinton White House placed trade – and trade with China specifically – above national security.
"In all likelihood we will be glowing in the dark before we discover the true extent of the Clinton decade of betrayal," stated Rick Fisher, Asian Security Fellow at the Center for Security Policy.
"If it was indeed intended for a new PRC weather satellite, then it is possible that it was used for their new polar orbit weather satellites. This is significant because the Chinese themselves acknowledge that their polar orbit weather satellites directly contribute to their long-range missile targeting capability. This becomes even more important for their new smaller but more accurate warheads, used on their new DF-31, DF-31A, DF-5 Mod2 and JL-2 missiles. If they encounter significant weather, warhead accuracy degrades, reducing their utility," stated Fisher.
"Inasmuch as similar U.S. military weather satellites perform the same missions, the Clinton Administration had to have known they were assisting a PLA strategic military capability," concluded Fisher.
In addition, the Chinese military is clearly interested in acquiring advanced radiation hardened computer chips for its strategic nuclear arsenal.
U.S. Chips for PRC Nukes
Currently, China has only liquid fueled, long-range missiles, and the majority of them are based inside underground silos. These long-range rockets are reported to be "bore-sighted" – meaning the underground silos are aimed directly at target cities inside the United States.
The Chinese army is now attempting to shift its strategic nuclear arsenal to a solid-fuel "launch on command" capability. These new missiles are rail- and road-mobile and require sophisticated electronic guidance systems to accurately strike their intended targets.
As part of this upgrade, the Chinese army is also modifying its nuclear warhead designs to arm new survivable missiles such as the DF-31 and JL-2. Chinese engineers are planning to equip these new missiles with MIRV technology, allowing each missile to carry multiple nuclear warheads.
Again, the U.S. radiation hardened computer chip technology is a logical addition to the reconfiguration and upgrade of Chinese nuclear weapons.
Stolen U.S. Chips
Another critical element of the Clinton-supplied waiver is the fact that it took place during an investigation of Chinese espionage into missing U.S. radiation hardened satellite chips.
In February 1996, a Chinese Long March rocket carrying a Loral Intelsat satellite failed and crashed on lift-off. The Loral Intelsat payload was badly damaged. The Chinese intended to launch the Loral satellite into deep space as they had been paid to do by Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz.
However, fate took a twisted path, and so did the Chinese rocket. The Long March rocket failed on launch and crashed into a nearby Chinese village, killing over 200 innocent civilians. The failure of the Long March allowed the U.S. to recover the sealed satellite guidance box, which revealed the control board of radiation-hardened chips was missing.
The missing board from the Loral Intelsat satellite is no mystery. It quickly became obvious that Chinese engineers removed the special electronics and kept the board for examination. The stolen Loral electronics consist of radiation hardened, encrypted telemetry chips, stored in a secure flight control box similar to those found on airliners. The NSA changed all U.S. satellite codes as a result of the stolen Loral chips, costing American taxpayers millions of dollars.
1996 Illegal Campaign Donations
Another factor involved in the November 1996 waiver issued by then-President Clinton is the fact that illegal money entered the U.S. elections from the Chinese army. The money was donated to the DNC from a variety of sources including convicted Chinagate figures John Huang, Charlie "Yah-Lin" Trie and Johnny Chung.
The 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign readily accepted much of the money from the Chinese army sources without question, and in some cases took these donations in cash. The allegations of Chinese espionage and illegal campaign donations were never investigated properly.
The successful effort by China to obtain U.S. microchip technology included espionage, sabotage and perhaps bribery. The red intelligence windfall freed the Chinese army to more accurately target American cities with atomic weapons using advanced U.S technology.
The legacy that President Clinton left for the 21st century is a modern Chinese army equipped for global nuclear war.
In addition to emboldening terrorists around the world by not dealing with them and looking the other way.
CLINTON's PATENT LEGACY
The Democrats also gave all pending US Patent applications
to the Chinese INCLUDING those patent applications STILL not granted.
The patents continue to be witheld from the American public by
the Commissioner for Patents, Nicholas Godici to this day
---> including those involving sources of alternative energy.
FREEP for justice and truth:
[telephone number is 703 305 8800
[ Fax:703 305 8825 email: Nicholas.Godici@USPTO.gov]
"Radiation hardened" has a multiplicity of meanings. The stuff we sold, IIRC, was designed to cope with charged-particle bombardment (solar wind, et cetera). The chips for nuclear missiles and warheads require the ability to withstand a higher-than-average neutron flux during their regular service life and brief exposure to EXTREMELY high neutron flux during the flight of the missile to the target.
The two forms of shielding are radically different--charged particles are stopped by a Faraday cage of sufficient strength, while neutrons (having no electrical charge) can only be stopped by using enough low density material (hydrocarbon-based resins and the like).
P.S. Here is something to scare the daylights out of you.
Yellowstone caldera, big deal. Asteroids, big deal.
China and N. Korea have been working on getting rockets that can carry small payloads into outer space ready.
Know why?
It's because those small payloads are their new GPS system.
America's overpowering military is possible due to out GPS systems and technology, and is also totally dependent on that technology.
If you want to beat AMERICA, then you must put up your own GPS system, and then disable the AMERICAN SYSTEM.
Other nations (besides China and N. Korea) are helping,investing, and will be watching this feat being accomplished.
One must find out a way to destroy the US GPS satellites without destroying the CHINESE ones. Now I see how. AND....... we are asleep at the wheel.
GPS satellites presently use radiation-hardened chips--otherwise they'd fail in a matter of hours after launch.
P.S. Here is something to scare the daylights out of you.
Uh-huh...
Yellowstone caldera, big deal. Asteroids, big deal.
Your point is?
China and N. Korea have been working on getting rockets that can carry small payloads into outer space ready.
China's had them since the 1960s. Whoop-de-do.
Know why?
I'm sure you'll tell me...
It's because those small payloads are their new GPS system.
If it's a small payload, it will not be a radiation-hardened payload capable of doing the GPS mission. Radiation-hardening adds a fair amount of weight to any satellite.
America's overpowering military is possible due to out GPS systems and technology, and is also totally dependent on that technology.
Actually, it isn't; it just helps our military work better.
If you want to beat AMERICA, then you must put up your own GPS system, and then disable the AMERICAN SYSTEM.
Uh-huh. All you have to do is kill over 20 satellites, WITHOUT killing your own unhardened satellites, AND ensure that the Americans can't use YOUR satellites.
Other nations (besides China and N. Korea) are helping,investing, and will be watching this feat being accomplished.
Uh-huh.
One must find out a way to destroy the US GPS satellites without destroying the CHINESE ones. Now I see how.
OK, then kindly tell us how it would be done.
AND....... we are asleep at the wheel.
Actually, we aren't; the fact that GPS actually survives years of exposure to the space environment speaks volumes about how radiation-hardened our satellites are, considering that the satellites are only 93,000,000 miles or so away from a completely unshielded and VERY large fusion reactor (the Sun) that puts out quite a bit of radiation.
They see it, they deny it.
So, it is not unreasonable to think that these chips will be used in foreign GPS satellites?
I said "our technology (for the military) it totally dependent on GPS"
You said, "Actually, it isn't; it just helps our military work better.
I agree with you. However, I don't think that most of our strategies in Iraq would have worked without GPS. Do you?
All you have to do is kill over 20 satellites, WITHOUT killing your own unhardened satellites, AND ensure that the Americans can't use YOUR satellites.
Kill or DISABLE?
I believe that if those satellites can be turned off, jammed, or otherwise scrambled, that the CHINESE have the best shot at it. How much of the GPS technology did Clinton give to the CHINESE?
I don't know and I would venture neither do you. Do our GPS satellites have self-destruct capabilities, should they lose orbit and need to be destroyed?
The precision of GPS coordinates is varied for various uses. Normal precision is what you and I can get. Then there is military precision. This accuracy was available only to the military (and other government agencies like NASA), and yet, Clinton gave away the 'key' to this to the Chinese.
OK, then kindly tell us how it would be done.
Reverse engineering. Now that the Chinese have the chips, they can determine exactly what and how they are 'protected'. Then, they design an extra protection around these 'hardened chips' that the US ones (already in use, in orbit) do not have.
Place the Chinese GPS sats in a different orbit than the US ones. Play bowling for dollars with a bunch of steel ball bearings. I can think of many ways to destroy or incapacitate them.
The stuff we sold, IIRC, was designed to cope with charged-particle bombardment (solar wind, et cetera).
So, they got the chips that could be used in GPS satellites, not nuclear missiles?
From the 1991 Gulf War till now, all the US military operations would have been impossible without GPS
The EU will eventually (with Red China) stand up against the US, and the US will fall. As much as I hate to say it.
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