From The Sunday Times
January 27, 2008
AN investigation into the illicit sale of American nuclear secrets was compromised by a senior official in the State Department, a former FBI employee has claimed.
The official is said to have tipped off a foreign contact about a bogus CIA company used to investigate the sale of nuclear secrets.
The firm, Brewster Jennings & Associates, was a front for Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent. Her public outing two years later in 2003 by White House officials became a cause célèbre.
The claims that a State Department official blew the investigation into a nuclear smuggling ring have been made by Sibel Edmonds, 38, a former Turkish language translator in the FBI’s Washington field office.
Edmonds had been employed to translate hundreds of hours of intercepted recordings made during a six-year FBI inquiry into the nuclear smuggling ring.
Related Links
* FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft January 20, 2008
* For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets January 6, 2008
From
Bradblog
And more fallout from the Bush Administration:
Plan to Allow Logging in Alaskan Forest
Plan would open Tongass forest to logging
3 million acres of the Alaska wilderness would be made available under the new U.S. Forest Service management outline.
By Tami Abdollah,
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 26, 2008
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