Loose Nukes
Wayne Madsen reports October 25, 2005 :
"Brewster Jennings and the CIA Directorate of Operations Counter Proliferation Division (CPD) had established a program to purchase a range of nuclear weapons components, including Inter-continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) parts, nuclear warhead nose cones, and high grade plutonium and uranium bomb cores from Russian sources who were also selling to members of Russian Mafia networks who were, in turn, selling to the A. Q. Khan network in Pakistan and other WMD smuggling operations."
"The CIA's CPD agents were particularly worried about the materials for sale at the 70 square mile Russian nuclear weapons complex at Mayak, outside the town of Ozersk. In the late 1990s, black market high grade plutonium was being sold in buckets from warehouses in Mayak. For that reason, the CIA, using its Brewster Jennings NOC network as well as other contractors, purchased the black market materials from the nuclear "used car market," as a CIA source put it. The materials were transported to the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado where they were dismantled and disabled."
Madsen doesn't state where he gets his info (maybe Mr. Reynolds and Wrap) but it's a stretch to believe buckets of materials were being sold like "used cars" with Libby and Cheney deep into the nuke black market, and outed Plame and Brewster because of interference in profits. Heroin and oil I can believe, but plutonium? (How do you disable a bucket?)
– Also, Rocky Flats : "Most of the plant was shut down in 1989, and the remaining metalworking operations closed in 1992, officials said. Rocky Flats was owned by the federal government and operated by Rockwell International Corp., which eventually was fined $18.5 million for environmental violations."
Here's a September 2005 article which discusses Russia's nukes, Ozersk, and also mentions the buckets of plutonium, not anyone selling them by the bucket - but it may be where Madsen got creative. Paul Longsworth, a deputy administrator of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration, which helps Russia secure its nuclear sites, might be someone to google for more information.
2 comments:
Although I agree it is unlikely that "buckets" of nuclear material have been stolen or lost. I can't discount the information outright. Mostly because, we have been told by many people in the MSM, that it is not a matter of if but when, a nuclear attack against a US city happens. One thing I do know, is that every nuke has it's own radition signuture, tied to a specific country or region. Therefore, if our government wanted to nuke a city under the guise of terrorism, they would need to use a stolen nuke. Otherwise way to many questions would be raised if it was tied to US or say Isreal. But if the radiation is tied to a former soviet state. Bingo. You have yourself the perfect frame up.
But it is pretty tin foil, at least I hope it is......
Matt
The scenario you describe has been a thought of mine too. If nuke(s) detonate here it would need to track back to stolen material, and it's believable nukes have been on the black market.
To CYA the government's behind, what better than black market buyers who are of course "extremists." Hard to say what is disinfo and what not. But journalists who float the stories of buckets of loose nukes sold like a "used car market" help the government's official cover if it happens. Likely many writers give aid unknowingly, but a few know they're serving the State.
I consider also that with government control of the investigation, and eventually the commission who will report their "findings", would a nuke even need to be stolen? It's not as though UK or Russia or the Middle East is going to demand the "truth" of who nuked the US. We the people would be told within hours of the event the names, age, nationality, etc. of the perpetrators - gathered from their indestructible passports and the trail they leave behind.
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