BlueCat00
02-03-2008, 09:28 AM
THE FBI has been accused of covering up a key case file detailing evidence against corrupt government officials and their dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets.
The assertion follows allegations made in The Sunday Times two weeks ago by Sibel Edmonds, an FBI whistle blower, who worked on the agency??s investigation of the network.
the FBI was investigating a Turkish and Israeli-run network that paid high-ranking American officials to steal nuclear weapons secrets. These were then sold on the international black market to countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
One of the documents relating to the case was marked 203A-WF-210023. Last week, however, the FBI responded to a freedom of information request for a file of exactly the same number by claiming that it did not exist. But The Sunday Times has obtained a document signed by an FBI official showing the existence of the file.
??I can tell you that that file and the operations it refers to did exist from 1996 to February 2002. The file refers to the counterintelligence programme that the Department of Justice has declared to be a state secret to protect sensitive diplomatic relations,? she said.
The freedom of information request had not been initiated by Edmonds. It was made quite separately by an American human rights group called the Liberty Coalition, acting on a tip-off it received from an anonymous correspondent.
There are several sources for this article funny how none of them are from US media.
FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft - Times Online (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3216737.ece)
US officials 'sold nuclear secrets' | The Australian (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23014339-2703,00.html)
The assertion follows allegations made in The Sunday Times two weeks ago by Sibel Edmonds, an FBI whistle blower, who worked on the agency??s investigation of the network.
the FBI was investigating a Turkish and Israeli-run network that paid high-ranking American officials to steal nuclear weapons secrets. These were then sold on the international black market to countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
One of the documents relating to the case was marked 203A-WF-210023. Last week, however, the FBI responded to a freedom of information request for a file of exactly the same number by claiming that it did not exist. But The Sunday Times has obtained a document signed by an FBI official showing the existence of the file.
??I can tell you that that file and the operations it refers to did exist from 1996 to February 2002. The file refers to the counterintelligence programme that the Department of Justice has declared to be a state secret to protect sensitive diplomatic relations,? she said.
The freedom of information request had not been initiated by Edmonds. It was made quite separately by an American human rights group called the Liberty Coalition, acting on a tip-off it received from an anonymous correspondent.
There are several sources for this article funny how none of them are from US media.
FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft - Times Online (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3216737.ece)
US officials 'sold nuclear secrets' | The Australian (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23014339-2703,00.html)