West’s deadly N-secrets for sale
Monday, January 07, 2008

Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE: A whistleblower has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets, according to a Sunday Times article.

Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, who had listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office, approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey.

The newspaper quoted Edmonds as describing how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive military and nuclear institutions.

Selling information: “Among the hours of covert tape recordings, she says she heard evidence that one well-known senior official in the US State Department was being paid by Turkish agents in Washington who were selling the information on to black market buyers, including Pakistan,” the Times said.

The name of the official – who has held a series of top government posts – is known to The Sunday Times. He strongly denies the claims, the paper said.

However, the article reported Edmonds as saying: “He was aiding foreign operatives against US interests by passing them highly classified information, not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and political objectives.”

“She claims that the FBI was also gathering evidence against senior Pentagon officials – including household names – who were aiding foreign agents,” the article read.

“If you made public all the information that the FBI have on this case, you will see very high-level people going through criminal trials,” the Times reported Edmonds as saying.

“Her story shows just how much the West was infiltrated by foreign states seeking nuclear secrets. It illustrates how western government officials turned a blind eye to, or were even helping countries such as Pakistan acquire bomb technology,” the Times said.

“A backlog of tapes had built up, dating back to 1997, which were needed for an FBI investigation into links between the Turks and Pakistani, Israeli and US targets. Before she left the FBI in 2002 she heard evidence that pointed to money laundering, drug imports and attempts to acquire nuclear and conventional weapons technology,” the Times said.

“What I found was damning. While the FBI was investigating, several arms of the government were shielding what was going on,” Edmonds was reported as saying.

“The Turks, she says, often acted as a conduit for the ISI, because they were less likely to attract suspicion. Venues such as the American Turkish Council in Washington were used to drop off the cash, which was picked up by the official,” the paper said.

“I heard at least three transactions like this over a period of 2½ years. There are almost certainly more,” the Times quoted Edmonds as saying.


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Blow all the whistles, bang all the drums, we've got the bomb baby and we're not rolling back...

Interesting how the name of Turkey is being mentioned nowadays, if true Thankyou Turkey.

damn right no matter what we got it we got it in hard way and we are not going to handover its for our security.

Time to multiply our knowledge base as much as we can. In that way it will become really irreversible.

Blow all the whistles, bang all the drums, we've got the bomb baby and we're not rolling back...

Interesting how the name of Turkey is being mentioned nowadays, if true Thankyou Turkey.

Well said .. and now that they observe military cooperation with Turkey .. now they are involving them too !!

How typical.

i don't know the accuracy of this report, but however way we got it, we have it. QED.