Posted on 07/13/2005 6:28:56 PM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON – It was little more than a rumor during the darkest days of the Cold War.
Did agents of the Soviet Union conceal nuclear and biological weapons of mass destruction inside the U.S. and other western cities?
New evidence suggests they did – and that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorists network is determined to find them and use them with the help of bribed Russian spies or special forces soldiers who have maintained their secret locations for all these years.
According to a report by Gordon Thomas and David M. Dastych in the latest issue of the Polish news and opinion weekly Wprost, U.S. authorities searched in vain for the nuclear devices in New York City the day after the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida attacks.
They had been tipped off about the possible existence of Russian "suitcase nukes" in the area by officials in Poland and the Czech Republic, according to the report.
No nuclear weapons were found Sept. 12, 2001, or thereafter. But, more recently, U.S. intelligence services have become concerned about efforts by terrorists to buy off former Soviet and current Russian agents with knowledge of the weapons.
The report also cites the work of Paul L. Williams, an investigative reporter, former FBI consultant and author of several books, including "Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11," which claims al-Qaida sleeper agents have already stashed suitcase nukes in several major U.S. cities as well as Rappahannock, Va., where the U.S. government maintains an underground bunker as a command-and-control center for wartime or national emergency.
As WorldNetDaily reported earlier this week, Williams describes how al-Qaida has already purchased some post-Soviet mini-nukes and hired Russians to help them operate them. The report was first published in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence newsletter published by WND's founder.
Williams predicted in his book a nuclear attack by al-Qaida would be launched before the end of 2005.
Several U.S. officials have alluded to the threat recently.
"It may be only a matter of time before al-Qaida or another group attempts to use chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons," said Porter Goss, director of central intelligence before a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Robert S. Mueller III, director of the FBI, said: "I am also very concerned with a growing body of sensitive reporting that continues to show al-Qaida's clear intention to obtain and ultimately use some form of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear or high-energy explosives material in its attacks against America."
In addition, Thomas and Dastych report Britain's MI5 has identified 32 spies of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service operating under full diplomatic cover from their London embassy. The spies reportedly have links to deep-cover KGB agents who, during the Cold War, hid scores of genetically engineered biological warfare weapons in Britain's countryside. MI5 believes the Russian spies are still actively concealing the locations of the germ vials.
Meanwhile, KGB spymaster Alexander Kouzminov confirms his agents planted the vials. He, too, believes Russian agents are still involved in guarding them.
"Huge efforts and money was spent in our work," he explained. "It would be foolish to believe our people were stood down just because Russia took part in biological weapons talks in Geneva."
It would be a dud, but I doubt there is/was no upkeep.
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We don't have any agreements about maintaining localized nukes... especially if we don't know they are there!
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I agree. How many campus commies are there in this country who would be willing to hide something in their office safe from time to time? "Buried" doesn't always have to mean something that has had dirt shoveled over it.
It's probably true but they haven't used them YET because they are trying to accomplish their immediate goals of collapsing Western Civil. and driving our culture out of sandland without permanently "polluting" our land,,they would like to take over and MOVE here also.....Just hope we've told them any big moves on their part will result in destruction of Mecca , Medina, Riyhad, Tehran, etc....
The cold war never ended... it just entered a new phase. Putin is no friend of the USA.
Russian WMDs hidden in U.S.?I would think the dyn-o-mite or other age-sensitive 'activating mechanisms' would have aged sufficiently in some of those 'devices' so as to be a) a genuine hazard unto whomever was 'housing' said devices (MUCH before they are moved into position) or b) rendered unusable ...
Suffice it to say, I think on several different grounds this story's basis is flawed ...
Agreed completely.
What makes you think that these assets have not been "upgraded" like every other Russian weapons system over the last 50 years?
He was on Coast to Coast for two hours last night. IMHO- He seemed to know what he was talking about.
I thought that you had to regularly install a new tritium trigger for these things to work. If just a couple of the charges don't go off simultaneously, all you have is a dirty bomb. So I find all this very hard to believe.
I thought that you had to regularly install a new tritium trigger for these things to work. If just a couple of the charges don't go off simultaneously, all you have is a dirty bomb. So I find all this very hard to believe.
"any weapons hidden that long won't work."
The triggers might not work, but the fissile material would make a dandy dirty bomb.
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