January 27, 2008

Brewster Jennings, Valerie & Sibel

From The Sunday Times + my bold:
Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria in Washington, January 27, 2008
Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe

[...] Her [Sibel Edmonds] latest claims relate to a number of intercepted recordings believed to have been made between the summer and autumn of 2001. At that time, foreign agents were actively attempting to acquire the West’s nuclear secrets and technology.
[...] Plame, then 38, was the glamorous wife of a former US ambassador, Joe Wilson. Despite she […] often claim[ing] to be an oil consultant. In fact she was a career CIA agent who was part of a small team investigating the same procurement network that the State Department official is alleged to have aided.
Brewster Jennings was one of a number of covert enterprises set up to infiltrate the nuclear ring. It is is believed to have been based in Boston and consisted of little more than a name, a telephone number and a post office box address.
[...] One group of Turkish agents who had come to America on the pretext of researching alternative energy sources was introduced to Brewster Jennings through the Washington-based American Turkish Council (ATC), a lobby group that aids commercial ties between the countries. Edmonds says the Turks believed Brewster Jennings to be energy consultants and were planning to hire them.
But she said: “He [the State Department official] found out about the arrangement . . . and he contacted one of the foreign targets and said . . . you need to stay away from Brewster Jennings because they are a cover for the government.
[...] In the meantime, the role of Plame and Brewster Jennings became public knowledge in 2003. Plame’s husband, Wilson, wrote a report that undermined claims by President George W Bush that Saddam Hussein’s regime had attempted to buy uranium in Niger – a key justification
[...]
Phillip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, said: “It’s pretty clear Plame was targeting the Turks. If indeed that [State Department] official was working with the Turks to violate US law on nuclear exports, it would have been in his interest to alert them to the fact that this woman’s company was affiliated to the CIA. I don’t know if that’s treason legally but many people would consider it to be.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3257725.ece

Of course we've got this news via Lukery at Let Sibel Edmonds Speak!
http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com/2008/01/uk-times-brewster-jennings-outed-by.html

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