Former American CIA agent David Dastych supports Sibel Edmonds nuclear proliferation claims!

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Here's another article that just showed up a short time ago that documents a former CIA agent who's been living in Poland on how many sales of nuclear weapons have gone through countries like Israel and Turkey for both corrupt financial reasons as well as political reasons. One more article we should group together with Sibel's to help us sort out this WMD proliferation nightmare that's happening!

From:

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=21222

Nuclear proliferation cannot be controlled now
Former CIA agent says
Hamid Mir, from Islamabad

A former American CIA agent and nuclear expert David Dastych has claimed that main nuclear arsenals of Pakistan, India, Britain, France, the USA, Russia and China are safe but nuclear proliferation could not be controlled now because it has completely slipped out of control.

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Q: Do you know anything about some US officials selling nuclear secrets to others?

A: I do, but only through my American contacts in the Intelligence and the FBI. Some corrupt US officials of the Department of Defence and State Department facilitated the theft of US nuclear secrets (technology) from American national laboratories -- Los Alamos and Sandia -- to customers in several countries, including Pakistan. This procedure involved Israeli and Turkish intelligence and also Pakistan's ISI.

Dr A Q Khan's laboratories were brokers for nuclear proliferation to other countries, including Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, Myanmar and other states looking for nuclear technology. This information first surfaced five years ago through reports of a Turkish-American FBI translator, Ms Sibel Edmonds. She was gagged by US court decision and only recently she disclosed more information, which is still being blocked by the Bush Administration. It was revealed in part by three articles, published by "The Sunday Times" in London on the 6th, 20th and 26th of January 2008 (with my contribution).

Q: Is it correct that US officials sold nuclear secrets not only to Pakistan but also to Israel and some Arab countries?

A: Of course, they did. The main recipient of the most of the US nuclear information was always Israel, specifically after the capture, sentencing and jailing of their main spy in the USA. Jonathan Pollard, whose handler was a former top Israeli intelligence officer Rafi Eitan (now member of the Israeli government and chairman of the Pensioners Party).

An informal group in the Mossad composed of right-wing operatives and working hand-in-hand with the Turkish and Pakistani Intelligence was offering US nuclear technology to some Arab countries and to other countries. They did this for profit and, in some cases also for political motives, for example, to get direct proof of some foreign states illegally purchasing nuclear materials or technology. At present, this might be used as a justification to prove that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

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1. K&R

thanks!

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2. Ruud Lubbers, former Prime Minister of The Netherlands and Dr A Q Khan arrest

Ruud Lubbers, former Prime Minister of The Netherlands, made public a few years ago that the Dutch AIVD (intelligence) wanted to arrest Dr A Q Khan.
This arrest was cancelled after strong pressure from the US (State Department) not to arrest him because of an ongoing investigation into Dr A Q Khan's practices and his contacts.
Makes you wonder.

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3. Another article by Dastych alleges CIA involvement in heroin trade, possibly on rendition flights!

It sounds like David Dastych is looking in to a lot of the same things that Sibel alleges (with her talking about drug trafficking also being involved with the WMD secrets trading in her earlier articles to the London Times). I wonder if her "buckle your seat belts" note in Luke's article yesterday might be hinting towards her revelations to the same thing that Dastych is alleging here, that the CIA is involved with heroin trading in Afghanistan and selling weapons, etc. to the Taliban there too.

From:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1250

‘Narco-renditions’ in Afghanistan
Trading with the Enemy
By David Dastych Tuesday, January 8, 2008

“Dear David, I badly need your help.

Some time ago a Russian newspaper “Vremya Novostei” published a story written by Arkady Dubnov, one of the best informed Russian journalists on Central Asia, about the alleged role of the US Air Force in heroin traffic from Afghanistan to Europe.

He wrote that the US Air Force transported 85% of heroin produced in Afghanistan. Dubnov quotes anonymous Afghani sources (there are also some accusations of Karzai’s brothers who take part in this scheme).

The article also claims Afghan warlords have some deals with local US and British commanders not to liquidate the poppy plantations etc. What do you think about that? Have you ever heard about such possibilities? Best regards, Andrei.”

This is a letter I received from my Russian friend, Andrei Soldatov, a respected investigative journalist and the Managing Editor of an Internet Magazine “Agentura.ru”. Soldatov is young (in his 30’s), not a Putin crony and a very brave reporter (Dubrovka, Beslan, Chechnya, Lebanon war), who had many times clashes with the Russian special services over his objective reporting and publishing. That’s why I trust him. The only national economy of Afghanistan is virtually the narco-business--worth some $ 10 billion or more per year. I have been receiving hints since a year or so that the ISAF forces in Afghanistan, the American and the British forces there in particular (at least some units) are deep-rooted in the Afghani narco-business. It seems that the U.S. Government is tolerating it, and the British Government, too. The worse part of the whole dirty scandal is that allegedly some heroin is purchased from Taliban guerillas, in exchange for weapons. Thus, the ISAF (NATO) is selling weapons to the enemy, who later uses them against soldiers of the Alliance in battle. It is exactly the same corrupt practice that had been so popular (and still is) in Chechnya, where the Russian forces were selling Russian weapons to their enemy--the Chechen Jihadists they fought against. The main motive is, of course, money. But the Russian soldiers are poor devils, while the U.S. Air Force troops by comparison are elite, well paid and equipped.

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While the international human rights organizations focused on the investigation of alleged CIA kidnapping and torture of al-Qaeda suspects and prisoners, they never paid any attention to a fair possibility that the infamous, secret and uncontrolled CIA “rendition flights” could be used to smuggle heroin from Afghanistan to Europe.

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5. K&R, Thanks for pointing out these articles calipendence!!

Obviously the US media, including much of the US internet, is too weak to dig into this important information. I have read other reports about CIA "rendition flights" being used to smuggle heroin from Afghanistan to Europe. Neocons and the Russian mafiya are involved in this dirty business together - no wonder Putin's government tries to silence anyone reporting on it. See this article by a former British ambassador which includes the reasoning behind why Litvenenko was poisoned:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=469983&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true

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4. Here's some bio info on Dastych

Former Polish intelligence officer jailed for spying for the west during the Cold War. Now a free-lance journalist who has written for Raw Story.

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1184

David Dastych (65) was the Polish intelligence agent in the 1960s-1980s, and since 1973 – also a double CIA agent. He was then working in Eastern Europe, in the USA, Vietnam, and China. Dastych was arrested in 1987 by the Polish counterintelligence on the charges of espionage for American and Japanese secret services. He was released from prison in 1990, after fall of the Communist regime in Poland. In the following years he was voluntarily cooperating with several western intelligence services in the framework of monitoring the illegal nuclear trade in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East. After he was severely injured in France in 1994, Dastych started his journalistic and research work, specializing in different aspects of world secret services’ activity, terrorism, and organized crime. He participated as an editor in publishing of a number of well-known books dealing with the intelligence issue, including the book named “Gideon's Spies. The Secret History of the Mossad” by Gordon Thomas. He currently continues keeping in touch with many former and active secret servicemen in the USA, in Western and Eastern Europe, in the Middle and the Far East.

Here's a Rawstory article he co-wrote last year with Larisa:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Sovietera_compound_in_Poland_was_site_0307.html
Soviet-era compound in northern Poland was site of secret CIA interrogation, detentions
Larisa Alexandrovna and David Dastych
Published: Wednesday March 7, 2007

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US, Britain asked Poland to join clandestine program

POLAND -- The CIA operated an interrogation and short-term detention facility for suspected terrorists within a Polish intelligence training school with the explicit approval of British and US authorities, according to British and Polish intelligence officials familiar with the arrangements.

Intelligence officials identify the site as a component of a Polish intelligence training school outside the northern Polish village of Stare Kiejkuty. While previously suspected, the facility has never been conclusively identified as being part of the CIA's secret rendition and detention program.

Only the Polish prime minister and top Polish intelligence brass were told of the plan, in which agents of the United States quietly shuttled detainees from other holding facilities around the globe for stopovers and short-term interrogation in Poland between late 2002 and 2004.

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