Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Brewster Jennings Ops Compromised by Nuke Spy-Ring via CANNONFIRE by Joseph on 1/27/08 Antifascist Calling... Following up on a series of explosive revelations by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, The Sunday Times reports in today's edition that the CIA's brass plate firm Brewster Jennings & Associates was a target of the nuclear spy-ring associated with the shadowy network run by "disgraced" Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan. According to the Times, a senior State Department official, widely believed to be Marc Grossman, though still unnamed by the Times' Insight Team, compromised the investigation when he tipped off a foreign contact about a CIA front company used to investigate the illegal proliferation of nuclear technology. According to The Sunday Times,
The firm, Brewster Jennings & Associates, was a front for Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent. Her public outing two years later in 2003 by White House officials became a cause célèbre. Sibel Edmonds' allegations that American moles directly linked to the American-Turkish Council and a web of Likudnik neoconservatives in the Pentagon, aided an international for-profit network of nuclear proliferators, drug traffickers and corrupt U.S. officials intent on stealing nuclear secrets has been ignored by all U.S. media outlets. That corporate news outlets are loath to explore the dodgy relations amongst U.S. officials and the alleged illegal activities of the lobby group should come as no surprise to attentive readers. Among the ATC's "partners" can be found high-powered defense and financial firms such as BAE, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Electric, Citigroup and Milsoft, a Turkish defense firm specializing in "command, control and tactical data links." All are major beneficiaries of Bush regime largesse in the form of hefty U.S. government contracts relating to the so-called "war on terror." Edmonds told The Sunday Times, "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. "The target ... immediately followed up by calling several people to warn them about Brewster Jennings. "At least one of them was at the ATC. This person also called an ISI person to warn them." If the ISI was made aware of the CIA front company, then this would almost certainly have damaged the investigation into the activities of Khan. Plame's cover would also have been compromised, although Edmonds never heard her name mentioned on the intercepts. Shortly afterwards, Plame was moved to a different operation.Former CIA officer Phillip Giraldi told The Sunday Times, "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." Treason or not, the significance of Edmonds' revelations point to an on-going series of covert relations that link Turkey, Israel and Pakistan to wider U.S. geopolitical interests for which the "war on terror" serves as a convenient cover. Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to CANNONFIRE using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
