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Western spies miss brochures advertising nuclear weapons technology
2004-02-22
EFL...cannot make this stuff up!
While Western intelligence policed the globe to halt the spread of nuclear weapons, a Pakistani company that specialised in enriching uranium offered its expertise to interested buyers in glossy brochures.
Fancy, eh?
One pamphlet from Khan Research Laboratories (KLR) featured a picture of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, against a background of missiles, rocket launchers and the mountains where the Islamabad government conducted its 1998 nuclear tests.
KLR...I missed that one on the NYSE.
"The main focus of our expertise/service is terror on the promotion of joint ventures for the manufacturing of advanced defence weapons/equipment," a brochure seen by Reuters said.
We also help arrange lovely holidays in the mountains as well!
Iraq, Libya, Iran and North Korea knew where to shop for sensitive nuclear technology in a marketplace that stretched across Europe into Africa, the Middle East and Asia, but the UN nuclear watchdog and some Western intelligence agencies have said they were in the dark until recently. "This was a massive intelligence failure," a non-aligned diplomat told Reuters.
Posted by:Dragon Fly

#1  Once again, our over-reliance on signals intelligence, to the detriment of our human-intelligence capabilities, comes back to bite us in the ass.

To the Democratic Party do-gooders who long ago gutted our humint activities so we would not be getting our dainty little fingers dirty playing around with shady characters in the back alleys of foreign lands, I say, "Way to go, shitheads!!"
Posted by: Dave D.   2004-2-22 12:26:53 PM  

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