Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe
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.
As usual, Luke Ryland has a great analysis of the article up on his blog. I can’t recommend his work on this story highly enough.
From the article, once again-
The State Department official said on Friday: “It is impossible to find a strong enough way to deny these allegations which are both false and malicious.”
Once again, the Sunday Times article appears to have originally had a somewhat different title than what it is now running by. In this case, they’ve left off a four letter (plus apostrophe s) word which rhymes with hole and can be used to describe Avogadro’s number, a burrowing mammal, a Mexican sauce, and an epidermal disorder, among other definitions. Hard to imagine how such a word might have slipped into the headline by accident in the first place…
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