Posted on 01/07/2006 10:21:17 AM PST by Kaslin
In a hairbrained scheme that was personally approved by then-President Clinton, the CIA deliberately gave Iranian physicists blueprints for part of a nuclear bomb that likely helped Tehran advance its nuclear weapons development program.
The allegation, detailed in the new book "State of War," by New York Times reporter James Risen, comes as the Iranian nuclear crisis appears to be coming to a head, with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urging that Israel be "wiped off the map" and his government announcing last week that it will resume uranium enrichment on Monday.
Reports Risen: "It's not clear who originally came up with the idea, but the plan [to give Tehran nuclear blueprints] was first approved by Clinton."
Beginning in February 2000, the CIA recruited a Russian scientist who had defected to the US years earlier. His mission: Take the nuclear blueprints to Vienna to sell them - or simply give them - to the Iranian representatives for the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Dubbed "Operation Merlin," the plan was supposed to steer Iranian physicists off track by incorporating design flaws in the blueprints that would render the information worthless.
But in what may turn out to be one of the greatest foreign policy blunders of all time, Operation Merlin backfired when the Russian scientist spotted the design flaws immediately - and even offered to help Iran fix the problems.
Risen said the Clinton-approved plan ended up handing Tehran "one of the greatest engineering secrets in the world, providing the solution to one of a handful of problems that separated nuclear powers such as the United States and Russia from rogue countries such as Iran that were desperate to join the nuclear club but had so far fallen short."
He noted that thanks to the bizarre operation, Iran could now "leapfrog one of the last remaining engineering hurdles blocking its path to a nuclear weapon."
Ironically, Risen's New York Times has declined to cover Mr. Clinton's Iranian nuclear debacle - concentrating instead on his book's dubious claims that the National Security Agency was first authorized to commence domestic wiretapping by President Bush.
Still, with Operation Merlin going so badly off track, "State of War's" revelations certainly warrant the kind of full blown congressional investigation now planned for the wiretap pseudo-scandal.
Risen's report could also have a serious implications for Sen. Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. Mrs. Clinton has been sharply critical of President Bush's handling of the Iranian nuclear crisis, complaining that a nuclear-armed Tehran would be a much more serious threat to the U.S. than Iraq.
It would seem so. We already know of the transfer of advanced missile guidance technology to the Chicoms. In Clinton, we had the perforct storm: massive self-indulgent corruption AND allegiance to "the other side". I wonder how much more of this level of treason remains to be discovered (and how much will forever remain hidden).
The Clinton's were sharing our weapons secrets with China, and others, too. You see, the left thinks if the whole would has nukes and is "equal" in power then that will be the end of war. Remember, they were saying it was the "end of history" with the end of the cold war. Now we would all come together under the UN and be a happy big global village.
Neither makes a sound.
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NEVER FORGET
The CLINTONS were actively on the side of our No. 1 terrorist enemy, Communist North Vietnam Dictator HO CHI MINH, during the Vietnam War
Former President CLINTON publically stated that "There might not even be an America around in 300 years."
From beginning to end the CLINTONS always been our Enemy Within.
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It becomes more evident each day that Clinton is the worst enemy this country has ever had to face and I pray it won't be long before the other half of the citizens wakeup and see it while we still have a country to call our own.
On top of that; IF Clinton could be reelected the people of this country would vote for him I think. We SHOULD be slottering them at elections.
"No.1 HILLARY-fighter & Freeper 'BKO' BARBARA OLSON propelled into the Pentagon's 1st floor going in excess of 500 mph on Sept. 11th."
Many times I've wondered if Barbara Olsen wasn't the main target behind 9/11. We lost a great warrior that day.
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HILLARY opts into the New York Senate seat race.
JFK, jr was told by HILLARY to just forget about his running for that same Senate seat like he told her he was thinking of doing.
JFK, jr's plane then suddenly enters the Atlantic Ocean in excess of 500 mph just as he's about to announce his running for that Senate seat despite HILLARY telling him not to.
The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
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Is there nobody that Clintoon did not whore with for money? When it is all over, how much will he have made for all the people he gets killed for his greed? A dime apiece, or millions of dollars, or both...
What does he care, he's a globalist now.
And Clinton's training started when he went to Oxford under the pretense of being a Rhodes Scholar.
Oxford = KGB headquarters extension.
Wasn't it at the beginning of the Clinton regime that Gorbechov became an 8 year resident of the US? Could that have been so the spy satellites [wiretaps] didn't pick up their conversations when the master was giving instructions bout the next move to his protegè?
Wow !!....BTTT !!
It's true Mo1. Rush talked about this on his show on Friday. Clinton and his cronies were entangled with the Iranians back in 2000.
You probably already saw this, but here is a ping just in case.
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