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Top UN Nuclear Watchdog a Russian Spy, Defector Says
The top U.N. official responsible for monitoring the clandestine nuclear programs of Iran and Pakistan is a Russian spy, according to a new book on Moscows espionage operations in the United States and Canada.The official is identified only by his Russian code name, ARTHUR, but other sources identified him as Tariq Rauf, 54, a Pakistani-born Canadian who is chief of verification and security-policy coordination at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The job puts him in direct contact with both inspectors and countries around the globe, a Canadian online magazine reported last year. Rauf is responsible for ensuring IAEA scientists get into countries such as Iran and negotiating the access they need to completely verify the use of nuclear material. The allegations appear in Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russias Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War by former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley, author of two previous books on Russian spying in the United States. The book amounts to a blistering memoir by Sergei Tretyakov, a former top Russian intelligence operative stationed in New York and Canada during the 1990s, first with the communist-era KGB and then its successor, the SVR.
Posted by: lotp 2008-01-19 |
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