U.S. Delivered “Flawed” Nuclear Weapon Plans to Iran
June 12th, 2007Via: Guardian:
Deep in the bowels of the CIA, someone must be nervously, but very privately, wondering: “Whatever happened to those nuclear blueprints we gave to the Iranians?”
The story dates back to the Clinton administration and February 2000, when one frightened Russian scientist walked Vienna’s winter streets. The Russian had good reason to be afraid. He was walking around Vienna with blueprints for a nuclear bomb.
To be precise, he was carrying technical designs for a TBA 480 high-voltage block, otherwise known as a “firing set”, for a Russian-designed nuclear weapon. He held in his hands the knowledge needed to create a perfect implosion that could trigger a nuclear chain reaction inside a small spherical core. It was one of the greatest engineering secrets in the world, providing the solution to one of a handful of problems that separated nuclear powers such as the United States and Russia from rogue countries such as Iran that were desperate to join the nuclear club but had so far fallen short.
The Russian, who had defected to the US years earlier, still couldn’t believe the orders he had received from CIA headquarters. The CIA had given him the nuclear blueprints and then sent him to Vienna to sell them – or simply give them – to the Iranian representatives to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). With the Russian doing its bidding, the CIA appeared to be about to help Iran leapfrog one of the last remaining engineering hurdles blocking its path to a nuclear weapon. The dangerous irony was not lost on the Russian – the IAEA was an international organisation created to restrict the spread of nuclear technology.
The Russian was a nuclear engineer in the pay of the CIA, which had arranged for him to become an American citizen and funded him to the tune of $5,000 a month. It seemed like easy money, with few strings attached.
Until now. The CIA was placing him on the front line of a plan that seemed to be completely at odds with the interests of the US, and it had taken a lot of persuading by his CIA case officer to convince him to go through with what appeared to be a rogue operation.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. The CIA has played this sort of evil game since its inception. With friends like this who indeed needs enemies!
The problem with this is, that reads like a play, not as if it was a real situation. I agree that the alphabets agencies plays games but the games are bit different then what we see from the movies or read from the novels.
There was a small indie film produced a few years back, shot on a small budget with a small crew of actors, which depicted a future scenario: a former US VP-turned-Prez through succession on the death of the Prez, then running for re-election, whose campaign entourage was stuck inside a dinner in a blizzard in Colorado at the height of an int’l crisis. The key was that an arrangement had been made earlier through France to sell defective nuclear weapons to the Baghdad regime (headed by one of Hussein’s sons) with which he now threatened world stability. The “game” was set up and the Hussein regime struck first with defective weapons, but the response was not defective, and Baghdad went up in a mushroom cloud.
This was written by a New York Times reporter. . .
Not the most credible source.
I’ve often wondered what fragments of novels or even movies may have come from reality and placed there, that they might be picked up; that some record exist or remain; echo Drfix –