Have Turkish Agents Penetrated Highest Echelons of US Government?

[cascadiance]

I'd post this in LBN, but it seems to be from a source that might be construed as a bit biased towards the Armenian point of view. Nevertheless, heprovides a lot of detail here on Turkish influence in the government that goes beyond what other articles have mentioned in the past in talking about the various problems that Sibel Edmonds has tried to expose with the ATC and other Turkish individuals influence over Dennis Hastert, infiltration by the Dickersons, etc.

In particular it discusses activities of lobbyists from Beyaz Enerji, a Turkish energy firm trying to get access to nuclear energy and how they might have cross paths with Brewster Jennnings, AIPAC, and other organizations.

http://www.collectifvan.org/article.php?r=4&id=4414

Have Turkish Agents Penetrated Highest Echelons of US Government?
Publié le : 03-10-2006

Sassounian's column of Oct. 5, 2006
By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier

The Vanity Fair magazine published last year an investigative article alleging that the American Turkish Council (ATC) and the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) had conspired, among other things, to make illegal campaign contributions to the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, in return for blocking a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide. The article also mentioned that Turkish agents had infiltrated the highest echelons of the U.S. government.

The main source for some of the Vanity Fair revelations was Sibel Edmonds who had worked as a Turkish translator for the FBI. Unfortunately, she could not disclose most of what she knew on this sensitive subject, as she is legally prohibited from making public the confidential FBI documents that she had translated in the course of her work. All attempts by U.S. courts or Members of Congress to get out the full facts have been quashed by the Bush Administration, using the cover of protecting national security.

There have been several disclosures in recent months, mostly from anonymous sources, which shed further light on this matter. A few days ago, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen posted a special report (WMR) on his website which included alarming allegations about the extent of illegal activities by Turkish groups in the United States. As the report is based on confidential intelligence sources, there is no way of independently verifying its content. Here are excerpts from that report:

In 2001, "the FBI counter-intelligence operation was investigating a weapons smuggling and influence-peddling ring that was centered on the activities of the American Turkish Council (ATC), a major Turkish lobbying organization in Washington, DC headed up by George H. W. Bush National Security Adviser, retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft. According to U.S. intelligence sources, a principal player in the ring was Grossman, a career foreign service officer who served as U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 1994 to 1997 and then moved back to Washington where he served as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs." In June 2001, Grossman, by then-Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, made two phone calls to two foreign intelligence agents in Washington, DC. "The calls were intercepted by the FBI."

"At the end of June 2001, the FBI learned, through its surveillance of the ring, Beyaz Enerji (White Energy), a Turkish energy firm, told its ATC interlocutors in Washington that it was sending a high-level team to the United States to negotiate the procurement of nuclear materials for Turkey's nuclear power program. In turn, the ATC contacted four individuals who had access to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico and asked them to arrange a three month visit to the labs by the Turkish nuclear specialists (October through December 2001) to ascertain Turkish requirements.

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[DavidDvorkin]

1. I thought that was the Zionists!

I can't keep track. This is so confusing.

[skids]

2. Considering they fire and "push out" all the true patriots...

It's not surprising that the WH is full of foreign plants.