Sat 26 Jan 2008
Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe
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Plame, Brewster Jennings & Edmonds’ Case.
Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria in Washington
The Sunday Times, U.K. 1/27/08
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.
Edmonds had been employed to translate hundreds of hours of intercepted recordings made during a six-year FBI inquiry into the nuclear smuggling ring. Full Article
See Also www.justacitizen.org and a documentary about Edmonds’ case, Kill The Messenger.