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| Top UN Nuclear Watchdog a Russian Spy, Defector Says | |
| 2008-01-19 | |
| 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 Moscow’s 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 Russia’s 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.
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| Posted by:lotp |
| #5 Where is the surprise meter? |
| Posted by: www 2008-01-19 23:03 |
| #4 Well, that's why he betrayed his country - he doesn't feel he has a country to betray. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-01-19 22:17 |
| #3 Tretyakov has other sensational allegations in his book, which officially goes on sale Jan. 24 but is available now online. Tretyakov says Russian intelligence considered Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III, the Clinton administration’s top Moscow hand, such a valuable source of inside information, and so vulnerable to its manipulation, that it classified him as a SPECIAL UNOFFICIAL CONTACT. Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III Qualifications for the USSR/Russia position at State: 1) Clinton Rapture. Trained Oxford Sycophant. 2) From FOB Journalist/Rapporteur™ was appointed to Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 until 2001. But a Russian official under the control of the SVR, then-Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Mamedov, Tretyakov alleges, was able to get inside information from Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III by massaging his considerable ego. “He became a valuable intelligence source,” Tretyakov says. Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III, who now heads the Brookings Institution, called the book’s “interpretation of events erroneous and/or misleading in several fundamental aspects. Jebus another 60s midget who at best is and was incompetent and at worst another SPY who betrays/betrayed us. Mamedov, now Russian ambassador to Canada, also dismissed the allegations, calling them “rubbish, an attempt to smear a fine American patriot . . . who was always tough as nails in nuclear arms negotiations with us.” My that's reassuring eh? Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III is a [self avowed] world federalist who wrote in a July 20, 1992 Time magazine article, "The Birth of the Global Nation", that "The best mechanism for democracy, whether at the level of the multinational state or that of the planet as a whole, is not an all-powerful Leviathan or centralized superstate, but a federation, a union of separate states that allocate certain powers to a central government while retaining many others for themselves."[1] he forgot to cite the RED part. |
| Posted by: RD 2008-01-19 19:57 |
| #2 el-Barradei doesn't need any more paymasters than he already has. He'll willingly let any Muslim country get the bomb. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2008-01-19 18:58 |
| #1 Does he tell who's paying Mohammed al-Barradei? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-01-19 18:22 |