Dutch court loses A.Q. Khan’s files, judge suspects CIA

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/September/theworld_September288.xml§ion=theworld&col=

AMSTERDAM - The Amsterdam court, which sentenced the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program Abdul Qadeer Khan to four years in prison in 1983, has lost Khan’s legal files and the court’s vice-president suspects the CIA had a hand in the documents’ disappearance.

“Something is not right, we just don’t lose things like that,” judge Anita Leeser told Dutch news show NOVA late on Friday.

“I find it bewildering that people lose files with a political goal, especially if it is on request of the CIA. It is unheard of,” she added.

Khan, who admitted in 2004 that he had leaked nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya, worked as an engineer in the Netherlands at Urenco, an uranium enrichment plant in the 1970s.

[ShockediSay]

1. Read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses..."

Fits right in.

http://www.democracynow.org/print.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251

[countmyvote4real]

2. I haven't read it, but "Ugly American" says it all.

Merka has done so much harm over the years that the invasion and destruction of Iraq seems like an invitation. It's not. Merka's actions are the invitation to our own downfall.

We need to clean our house quick for the sake of ourselves and our reputation around the world. And for you arrogant bastards that believe Merka has a right to do whatever it wants, well you ARE the problem.

[bunny planet]

3. Check Darth Dick's socks.

[papau]

4. Sigh - 83 was the year of my discussion with Ike's Und Sec of Commerce

Olmstead and his statement that Ike and the CIA (Dulles) had had him fund the developement of the Pak Atomic bomb via monies moved via black box and the Atoms for Peace program - saying that $20 billion had flowed plus tech help.

It sort of explaned why we had Iskandar Ali Mirza / Mohammad Ayub Khan Swiss Account paychecks still being sent as payroll checks from the InterNational Bank family companies, when these folks were reported as being dead (a fellow named Kia as I recall also had a check going to him). Christ - Olstead was afraid of the CIA - there would be hell to pay if we hired a lawyer from the DC/MD/Virginia area as Olmstead saw such as most likely plants by the CIA - indeed that was a major problem we had to solve in order to hire in a lawyer from Virginia at the time (fellow now works for AIG).

But Olstead had his Thursday night dinners with Reagan and crowd at the WH, so I rather doubt the CIA would have touched him.

In any case, when the US media put out the bull shit that China was developing the bomb for Pakistan, my conversation with Olstead came to mind, together with a sad smile.

Bottom line is that "Poor Khan" will never do time for doing what the CIA told him to do -

sigh...

:-(

[leveymg]

5. Please, tell us more. n/t

[papau]

6. Not much more to tell - Olmstead - as are many - was aware of the current

fake accounts that make up the CIA/NSA budget under false names in other areas of the budget - and of the accounts in financial institutions owned by the CIA/NSA for storage of money to be used as needed, and of the companies owned by the CIA, and of the CIA's media influence and corporate influence by people's names.

All of that is now 20 plus year old info and is perhaps still classified I suspect (I have no current knowledge of the CIA/NSA/etc folks beyond knowing, or knowing of, a few folks who work there).

I thought Olstead was bull shitting me at first, but I worked in finance and met a few international folk that without promting suggested as facts that which Olmstead had claimed. Perhaps our secrets are secret only in the US - which would make contrary info mere propaganda. But I do not know. I believe I am far enough away from the actual information to make what I say/post "mere old staff speculation" and not the breaking of any classified info rules. At least I hope so.

In any case, a used car dealer from the midwest by way of political contributions to Ike while he was still a General (can we say illegal slush fund) became an appointed General in the Army, a member of Ike's administration, a cog in the atomic bomb developement worldwide, a buyer of property from the Mafia in DC with Government wink/wink approval, the buyer of property from Pakistan ruling families via London Banks and two key account crap, the owner of the operation that legally flaged ships of other nations as a "service" provided by his International Bank Group, a conduit for oil money that fought off other oil money conduits - one led by Bert Lance of the Carter days - for control of DC banking institutions, and was a leading GOP voice, dinning with Reagan on many Thursdays at the WH (and very proud of that) that became written up when you do any Lexis search only for a maritime law article written in Australia.

Olmstead was an amazing character lurking in the shadows who had fun and made a few ten's of millions, but never got really rich.

Did I mention he was right wing and that I disliked him?

My near 10 years with him was interesting at least.

[struggle4progress]

7. kick

[agincourt]

8. The foreign nuke that would hit us,

would have been originally funded by the Reagan administration, but remember it's Jane Fonda's fault.

[Pryderi]

9. khaleejtimes? Has it hit any US newspapers?

If fox news hasn't reported on it, then it never happened.

[gratuitous]

10. A lot of papers disappear whan a Bush is squatting in the Oval Office

It's uncanny, I tells ya!

[angryxyouth]

11. Wow Kahn will get a walk, and Pakistan gets Us Spy planes. What a DEAL!!

For them..What do we get?