[Nogbad]

Source is John Batchelor of WABC:
who got it from the Washington Post website,
but added that the aid consisted of gas centrifuges
to make plutonium.
He did not indicate where he obtained this information.

[Mitchell]

John Batchelor has gotten scoops before, hasn't he? I never see him credited later though.

[Mitchell]

gas centrifuges to make plutonium.

Something about this doesn't ring true. Gas centrifuges are used for enriching uranium. I could be wrong, but I don't think centrifuges are used in plutonium separation. (If I remember right, plutonium is produced in nuclear reactors as a by-product of a nuclear reaction involving uranium, and the plutonium is then separated chemically.)