-Caveat Lector- Report: KGB ordered Swiss explosion to distract attention from Chernobyl http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=137706 Tuesday, 21 November 2000 3:06 (ET) LONDON, Nov. 21 (UPI) - Members of a special Stasi unit caused the 1986 blaze at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals storage site in Switzerland, one of the worst pollution disasters of modern times, The Times of London reported Tuesday. The report said the operation, ordered by the KGB, was intended to distract world attention from the Chernobyl meltdown six months earlier in Ukraine. Vincent Cannistraro, a former senior CIA officer, told Germany's state television network, ZDF, of the alleged connection. "The Stasi worked on a commission for the KGB. They used the catastrophe contingency plan prepared by a Zurich insurance company which conducted an inspection of the Sandoz works," he said. "In the plan, it was described in detail what would happen if a fire broke out in certain halls." Cannistraro said his information came from a KGB official in Moscow. A special Stasi unit known as AGMS (Working Group for Ministerial Special Problems) was put on the job, according to the Times report. Thomas Auerbach, a Stasi archives researcher on AGMS activities, confirmed the report: Stasi expertise in explosives sabotage was well known in intelligence circles. The Sandoz blaze swept through the giant storage halls of the company site, requiring thousands of gallons of water to finally extinguish the flames. As a result, tons of dangerous chemicals and poisonous mercury flowed into the Rhine, killing millions of fish. More than 150,000 dead eels surfaced five days after the explosion and the Rhine became known as the River of Death. It took almost a decade for the Rhine to recover and the precise cause of the fire was never established. -- Copyright 2000 by United Press International. All rights reserved. -- === <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
