Friday, April 14, 2006

A Shortcut To Nukes?

I don't know how reliable this is:
"Apr 14, 2006

"Last night, radio talk show host and former US Justice Department official Mark Levin shocked many listeners when he reported that President Bill Clinton gave nuclear technology to the Iranians in a harebrained scheme.

"He said that the transfer of classified data to Iran was personally approved by then-President Clinton and that the CIA deliberately gave Iranian physicists blueprints for part of a nuclear bomb that likely helped Tehran advance its nuclear weapons development program.

"The CIA, using a double-agent Russian scientist, handed a blueprint for a nuclear bomb to Iran, according to a new book State of War by James Risen, the New York Times reporter, who exposed the Bush administration's controversial NSA spying operation, claims the plans contained fatal flaws designed to derail Tehran's nuclear drive.

"But the deliberate errors were so rudimentary they would have been easily fixed by sophisticated Russian nuclear scientists, the book said.

"The operation, which took place during the Clinton administration in early 2000, was code named Operation Merlin and 'may have been one of the most reckless operations in the modern history of the CIA,' according to Risen...."

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2 comments:

Epaminondas said...

I have seen this before. I think this is kind of crazy, but who knows... it's a little infalmmatory in that the story makes it sound like Clinton said "here, have a nuke" rather than a clearly stupid plan to derail Iranian efforts.

Since the Iranians are engaged in U235 enrichment as the means to a bomb, so sorry, but the engineering for creating a bomb has been WELL KNOWN for 2 generations.

Further, the trick in that line of development is not the bomb, but the enrichment a process they just claimed to have mastered.

Anonymous said...

I' ve heard that the bomb was given to Iran by Cheney!
There are so many crazy theories.
Truth is, anyone could have found nuke details on net up 3/4 years ago.