AQ Khan and The Libby Trial? Part III-by Larisa Alexandrovna

[kpete]

AQ Khan and The Libby Trial? Part III

Update: Just thought of something, first line - redacted...VP get copy of (REDACTED)on Iran... have no damn clue what this means either, but there you have it to dig into.


Following up on my earlier post, see HERE http://www.atlargely.com/2007/01/aq_kahn_and_the.html

........ First, let's have the court testimony in which this popped out - again, thanks to Marcy Wheeler, who is not a court reporter, but is doing a great job transcribing in real time. "A" is David Addington, Dick Cheney's COS and W is Welles with team Libby:

W Prior to your interview with FBI, you reviewed this document.

A I'm not certain of the timing. I certainly saw it before I went to the GJ.

W Makes reference to you by name. Addington.

A Yes.

Addington on 1) declass 2) Wilson K

A The symbol K is often used to refer to a contract.

W You had a meeting with Mr. Libby where two subjects discussed, subjects were declassification, he asked some questions concerning information CIA might have WRT a trip.

A Only my recollection is they went in reverse order.

W Mr. Libby used the term spouse in portion dealing with CIA. In that section of the note, there's no reference to spouse.

Wells approaching witness stand.

W WRT whether you had reviewed that document prior to FBI. You were interviewed on 2/12/2004.

A I wouldn't have remembered the date, I assume govt stipulates it was that date.

W Review this document see whether that refreshes memory about reviewing doct prior to FBI interview.

A agrees he had reviewed

W It says Dept of Navy v Egan. Supreme Court Addington

W Two lines down declassify

W You recall reviewing these notes. You referred to Navy V Egan

A I cited it, I didn't hand him a copy of it. He has ADD, but I'm sure that must refer to me.

W Two lines down from that it says declassify

A It says Declas, which I assume means declassify.



Here now are the notes/document he was given to review:


http://www.atlargely.com/2007/01/aq_khan_and_the.html#more

[seemslikeadream]

1. I noticed that too!

:hi:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=79653&mesg_id=80695

[Supersedeas]

26. Hmmmmm, interesting.

[mmonk]

2. Yes.

and a very big deal.

[blm]

3. Here's more to dissect...

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050812/main7.htm

Why did CIA shield A.Q. Khan?
K. Subrahmanyam

FORMER Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers in an interview to Dutch radio station on August 9 has revealed that the CIA intervened on two occasions with the Dutch authorities to persuade them not to take action against the Pakistani proliferator, Dr A.Q. Khan. The first occasion was in the mid seventies when Dr Khan was caught copying the drawings and taking URENCO centri-fuge plant away. As the Dutch authorities were about to prosecute him he was protected by the CIA which intervened to stop the action. The second time was in 1985 when the CIA dissuaded the Dutch not to go ahead with a retrial ordered by the appellate court which entertained Dr Khan’s appeal against his conviction by the trial court on his removing secret documents. According to Dr Lubbers, the CIA argued that if Dr Khan was left free they would be able to follow him and keep track of his activities in respect of the Pakistani nuclear programme.

In the light of these disclosures of the former Dutch PM it is obvious that the CIA had continued interest in Dr Khan from the mid-seventies to 1985. Since 1987 was the year when Dr Khan boasted to Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar about Pakistan having assembled the bomb it is logical to expect that the CIA’s interest in Dr Khan continued. Dr Khan has confessed that he was approached by the Iranian authorities in 1987 for transfer of nuclear technology and he started his proliferation to Iran from that period with the full approval of Gen Zia-ul-Haq. The CIA which was keeping watch over Dr Khan should therefore have known about Dr Khan’s proliferation to Iran and his black market contacts with Western European firms.

Senator Kerry’s Senate Committee report on the activities of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) of 1992 has referred to the linkage between BCCI, Dr Khan, Iranian proliferation and the lack of cooperation on the part of the CIA in regard to its interactions with the bank.

It is now established that BCCI, which was financing the Pakistani nuclear programme was also used by the CIA in the Iran-Contra deal. The CIA which should have kept a close watch on Dr Khan according to the disclosures of Dr Lubbers should have known about Dr Khan’s repeated trips to North Korea for missiles in exchange of uranium enrichment deal after Ms Benazir Bhutto’s visit to Pyong-yang in 1994. In that case the US should have known about Dr Khan’s proliferation activity to North Korea from the very beginning.

Against this background the claims of former CIA director George Tenet about the CIA coming to know about Dr Khan’s activities from the year 2001 onwards and US communicating its doubts about Dr Khan to General Musharraf and consequently his being removed raises problems of credibility. There appears to be a high probability that the CIA was watching Dr Khan from the mid-seventies and it was fully aware of proliferation network involving Western European companies, China, North Korea, Dr Khan and the Pakistan Army. That Carter and Reagan administrations decided to look away from Pakistan-China-West European companies proliferation network has been well researched and documented by many American authors and journalists.

There is a view that Dr Khan has got away lightly because of the Pakistan Army’s involvement in his activities and his ability to spill the beans in respect of the Army’s connivance in Dr Khan’s proliferation. Now with the disclosures of Dr Lubbers it would be logical to speculate whether Dr Khan and the Pakistani leadership have not been let off lightly in spite of the proven proliferation perhaps because they are in a position to tell the world about the CIA’s long connection with the nuclear walmart run by the Pakistani army leadership and Dr Khan.

It has always been a mystery why the US administration was soft on China-Pakistan proliferation interaction in the ‘90s. It took some seven years after Pakistan officially admitted receipt of missiles from China, for the US to admit that. Till then, the Clinton administration pretended that it was still to make a determination about the receipt of Chinese missiles in Pakistan.
>>>>>>>

[seemslikeadream]

4. He told us that Khan Laboratories investigation had been effectively put on hold.

http://www.gregpalast.com/khan-job-bush-spiked-probe-of-pakistan%E2%80%99s-dr-strangelove-bbc-reported-in-2001/


Khan Job: Bush Spiked Probe of Pakistan’s Dr. Strangelove, BBC reported in 2001



You may never have heard of Khan Laboratories, but if this planet blows to pieces this year, it will be thanks to Khan Labs' creating nuclear warheads for Pakistan's military. Because investigators had been tracking the funding for this so-called "Islamic Bomb" back to Saudi Arabia, under Bush security restrictions, the inquiry was stymied. (The restrictions were lifted, the agent told me without a hint of dark humor, on September 11.)

Noam Chomsky, who read the story on page one of the Times of India, has wondered, "Why wasn't it all over US papers?

.. A top-level CIA operative who spoke with us on condition of strictest anonymity said that, after Bush took office, "There was a major policy shift" at the National Security Agency. Investigators were ordered to "back off" from any inquiries into Saudi Arabian financing of terror networks, especially if they touched on Saudi royals and their retainers. That put the Bin Ladens, a family worth a reported $12 billion and a virtual arm of the Saudi royal household, off limits for investigation.

I probed our CIA contact for specifics of investigations that were hampered by orders to back off of the Saudis. He told us that Khan Laboratories investigation had been effectively put on hold.

[seemslikeadream]

5. He's buddy buddy

http://www.bushflash.com/buddy.html

[blm]

6. I put up a thread a few days ago about Marc Rich pardon and Libby.

Marc Rich was an IranContra/BCCI figure - Libby had requested his pardon - I think the whole Denise Rich/Bill Clinton hype story was cover to distract from the real meat of his connections to IranContra/BCCI and the ongoing funding of terrorism as sanctioned by official governments.

Was Clinton duped into pardoning another IranContra/BCCI figure for Poppy Bush?

EVERY connecting dot just screams BCCI - BCCI - BCCI.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=76062

[sandnsea]

15. What's the real deal with Iran??

Protecting Khan? Selling arms to Iran? Depending on Chalabi? Letting Iranian Shi'ites into Iraq, who we knew were not going to support any kind of joint secular govt. Pakistan, India? What's the thread that connects all this? What would be the benfit of shifting our allegiance to Iran, if that were possible?

[blm]

16. hard to tell except for perpetual chaos and war means perpetual defense industry

and tightening controls on citizenry. In addition - manipulating oil prices and jockeying for oil profits. It's tough - a very hard area to wrap your entire brain around. But I think Bush2 has been so clumsy and heavyhanded that he may be bringing more of the puzzle pieces together.

[sandnsea]

17. I always consider power first

When you consider how much money they blew out their asses on Iraq, that they were willing to take blocks of cash to the tune of millions of dollars, and just dump it like pinata candy - well you realize they really don't give a crap about how much money they spend on nothing. So it has to be retaining or gaining power. The money is the means to control. The oil is critical to retaining control of the money and the power. I always figured they were attempting to keep Iran out of the reach of Russia or China and a strong Iraq would mean a weaker Iran. But the whole Khan thing puts it in a different light. I always considered selling Iran arms was just to weaken both countries, but considering everything that's happened since - not so sure.

[seemslikeadream]

7. BCCI and Pakistani Nuclear Hero

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1080836


From Rogue Nuclear Programs, Web of Trails Leads to Pakistan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=982843

Cheney covered up Pakistan nuke program. That's TREASON.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1899503

The Pakistan connection to 9/11
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2045979

Sinister connections behind Pakistan's nuclear black market
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2025798

The trail of Pakistan's ISI -- opium, al Qaeda, and Richard Armitage
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2016329

PLAME INDICTMENT #20-High Crime & Misdemeanors-Tip of Iceberg-Edmonds-Khan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2225780





Dick Cheney exposed Valerie Plame to cover up his association with A.Q. Khan's Nuclear Walmart. Read about it here: http://s93118771.onlinehome.us/DU/AMERICANJUDAS.pdf

[robertpaulsen]

8. Thanks for the links, seemslikeadream!

:hi:

I've been enjoying my :popcorn: this past week!

[seemslikeadream]

9. here ya go

I was just posting this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x95825

[blm]

10. heh, a DUer today implied BCCI has nothing to do with 9-11 or what's happening today.

because it was so long ago. Heh....just about EVERYTHING happening today is rooted in BCCI.

And they go around and call us delusional - geez - how many thousands of dots are we supposed to connect, fer chrissakes?

[robertpaulsen]

11. Yeah right. BCCI is like the Kevin Bacon of terror.

Only the degrees of separation are more like one or two.

[blm]

21. Some Democrats are FEARFUL to admit it because of what it means for Clinton

as if Clinton hasn't made it perfectly clear by now that he sides COMPLETELY with Bush1 and protecting secrecy and privilege.

The personality cultists will not wrap their brains around his involvement in covering up the outstanding matters that were left for him to pursue.

[robertpaulsen]

22. I think you nailed an inconvenient truth there.

It seems there's a quid pro quo so disgusting going on there, most prefer to turn away and say it ain't so. I think those are the same people in denial about just how far reaching the tentacles of BCCI actually reach. So they attack truthtellers like Robert Parry, not to mention you and me.

[Emit]

28. "BCCI continued to operate via Clearstream.." -also note @ Khodorkovsky's Bank Menatep

~snip~

Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which, although officially closed in July 1991, continued to operate via Clearstream through unpublished accounts — as did Bank Menatep, involved in the "Kremlingate" (diversion of IMF funds), and owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky...

~snip~

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearstream

[lala_rawraw]

12. you guys, let's see if we can make sense of the notes

and the context... is this just a laundry list of things to do?

[bleever]

18. It seems like it may hold some clues.

Redacted part of first line?

9/11 commission get what they wanted?

Khodorkovsky was arrested later in the year (Oct. 25).

Navy v. Egan cited in Libby trial; "In Department of the Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988), the Court held that the Merit Systems Protection Board does not have authority to review the Navy's security clearance determinations. The Court explained that security clearance determinations are "committed by law to the appropriate agency of the Executive Branch" (id. at 527) unless "Congress specifically has provided otherwise." Id. at 530. Consistent with Egan, the courts of appeals that have addressed the question have uniformly held that Title VII does not authorize a court to review the Executive Branch's security clearance determinations." http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/2005/0responses/2005-1065.resp.html

Hmm...

[Emit]

23. You might already have some of this info, but, here ya go

From the February 2003 issue of World Press Review (VOL. 50, No. 2)

The Thirst for Oil

A Competitive Northern Pipeline
Mariya Ignatova, Yekaterina Kravchenko, and Aleksei Tikhonov, Izvestiya (centrist), Moscow, Russia, Nov. 27, 2002

During George Bush’s recent visit to Russia, the U.S. and Russian presidents signed a statement on Russian-American dialogue. “We welcome the initiative of building a deep-sea port in Russia for the purpose of expanding exports,” it said.

And so on Wednesday, the top managers of Russia’s four largest oil companies—Lukoil, Yukos, Sibneft, and Tyumen Oil Co.—put their signatures to a memorandum marking the beginning of a megaproject valued at $3.5-$4.5 billion. By 2007, the companies intend to launch a new export route for Russian oil to the United States via Murmansk. And by 2010 Russian oil companies intend to hold a 13-percent share in the U.S. energy market, which fits in with the U.S. strategy of reducing dependence on Middle East oil.

Russia now exports about 5 million barrels of oil per day. Its main rival, Saudi Arabia, now exports more than 6 million barrels but, unlike Russia, it has an unused capacity to increase its exports by another 2.5 million barrels. Russia intends to increase its exports up to 10 million barrels per day, thus occupying a stable niche in the U.S. market. The Murmansk project is one of the ways of achieving such ambitions.

On Wednesday the memorandum of understanding about establishing an oil pipeline system for transporting oil via a sea oil-loading terminal in the Murmansk area was signed by Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov, Yukos Chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Sibneft President Evgeni Shvidler, and Tyumen Oil Co. Executive Director German Khan. The four of them had gathered merely to talk beforehand with Russia’s president. And apparently because of that, yesterday’s meeting was labeled “the beginning of modern history.” Alekperov refused to call his partners competitors: “Everywhere we have colleagues.”

~snip~

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:jjODYkpRpFkJ:www.worldpress.org/print_article.cfm%3Farticle_id%3D1007%26dont%3Dyes+murmansk+oil+Khodorkovsky&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

[Emit]

24. More on Khodorkovsky and Cheney

Not familiar with this source -- interesting reading so far... Reminds me of some of the stuff I read in Rupperts book, crossing the Rubicon about the Caspian Sea basin...

~snip~

It was at this time that the real battle in this new "cold war" - the Yukos battle - was coming to a head. Yukos was fast becoming one of top three or four oil companies in the world. Its chairman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was feted by the very top elite circles of American/Western power, regularly hobnobbing with Bill Gates and Dick Cheney among others.

What we didn't know until later was that Khodorkovsky was already deep in a high-stakes struggle with Putin over control of Russia's oil pipeline network. Owning pipelines was the Kremlin's one stick it wielded over the oil oligarchs. Khodorkovsky understood that for Yukos to further boost its position, it would need to at the very least wrest control of the pipeline network away from the Kremlin. Khodorkovsky wanted to build up Yukos' value quickly to sell a huge chunk of it to one of Cheney's Texas oil buddies, reportedly either Exxon or Chevron. The reason this was so important for Khodorkovsky was that, since he essentially stole the company during the loans-for-shares privatization scheme in the 1990s, it meant that his hold on the asset was tenuous. The Kremlin could just steal it back any time, as it later did. But the Kremlin would be loathe to steal a massive asset from Exxon or Chevron.

At the same time, Cheney was formulating a worldwide oil grab which he had been working on going back to the 1990s at least. In a speech in 1998, then-CEO of Halliburton Cheney said, "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian." The reason is simple: The Caspian Sea basin, particularly Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan's shares, holds upwards of $5-10 trillion worth of oil, perhaps more given today's prices.

~snip~
But there was a hitch. Putin and the siloviki saw this pipeline as an American oil grab. Putin was no longer inclined to like or trust the US after the ABM disaster and the Green Berets in Georgia scandal. No more illusions.

Now you can see where the chips were lining up. Both Cheney and Khodorkovsky had a serious interest in seeing control of the pipelines taken away from the Kremlin and handed to the "free market," where the US would have an advantage; and both of them wanted to see Yukos get bought by a US major, and both wanted to secure that US stake in Russia's oil wealth by every means possible, including political means. Khodorkovsky was transforming both Yukos and himself into a model Westernerizer, and he was becoming increasingly critical of the Kremlin's role in holding Russia back. If Khodorkovsky really was able to transform Russia into a pro-American state, it would obviously be better for Cheney and the oil companies than if the FSB controlled the state, and the oil.

This is what led to Khodorkovsky to allegedly try to buy off and retool the Russian political system. Without political control, he might not keep and grow his assets. While the Kremlin kept the oil companies from becoming even bigger and richer simply so that the Kremlin wouldn't lose control of them.

~snip~

It all ended in July 2003 when Putin jailed Platon Lebedev, and Yukos was finished. With its destruction went Cheney's hope of getting control of Russian oil.

~snip~

In 1994, Cheney was a member of Kazakhstan's Oil Advisory Board. He helped broker a deal between Kazakhstan and Chevron, a company where Secretary Condoleeza Rice served on the Board. ...

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:re7V4XSrxucJ:www.exile.ru/2006-May-19/the_cold_war_timeline.html+khodorkovsky+dick+cheney&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

[blm]

25. Good find. There is another layer to this whole outing and it's past time

that someone in the major media notice.

[Emit]

27. Khodorkovsky and the Carlyle Group

Bush, Khodorkovsky & Associates

The United States and numerous media outlets have been outraged by the arrest of Russian multimillionaire and oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky last October 25th. However, they have both failed to inform the public opinion about his financial links with the Bush family and his investments in the press. The Russian magnate is an important member of the Carlyle Group, a powerful association specialized in fund management that also administrates the fortunes of the Bush and Bin Laden families.
Two Russian businessmen, Platon Lebedev (president of the Menatep banking group, arrested for fraud on July 2, 2003) and Mikhail Khodorkovsky (president of the oil group Yukos-Sibneft, arrested for fraud on October 25, 2003) were members of the administrative manager’s office of the Carlyle Group’s investment funds, as indicated in an editorial by the Washington Post on Monday, November 10, 2003. ~snip~

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:TnwMQLKI2i8J:www.voltairenet.org/article30105.html+Khodorkovsky+Carlyle+group&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

~snip~
Khodorkovsky, 40, Russia's richest man and former chief executive of Yukos Oil Co., serves as an adviser to Carlyle's Energy Group. He is among 15 luminaries who help the firm sort through investment opportunities in energy industries, along with former secretary of state James A. Baker III, former British prime minister John Major and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin.

Khodorkovsky was arrested last month by Russian authorities for alleged fraud and tax evasion. Because the billionaire is seen as a possible political rival to President Vladimir Putin, his arrest has unsettled the country's business community and worried foreign investors.

Carlyle spokesman Christopher W. Ullman declined to comment on the matter.

Sources close to the firm say Carlyle is taking a cautious look at the business climate in Russia. So far, Carlyle has no investments in Russia, and has not followed through on preliminary discussions about starting a buyout fund with Russian investment company Alfa Group, the sources said.

Lebedev, chairman of Group Menatep, a holding company that is a major shareholder in Yukos, was arrested in July on fraud charges. Lebedev had served as an adviser to Carlyle's European investment funds, but is no longer listed on the firm's Web site.

Neither man has played a significant role for Carlyle, the sources said. Carlyle does not disclose its compensation to advisers.

Meanwhile, the firm has lost the services of its most prominent associate: former president George H.W. Bush, who was senior adviser for Carlyle's Asia funds, retired last month, shortly after serving as the main draw at a dinner in Moscow to woo investors.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20638-2003Nov10

[stillcool]

13. thanks for the reminder...

I had found some articles here.
http://covertaction.org//content/view/150/0/
this is one subject I have never gotten my head wrapped around. It's as though a board game were put in the closet, and then taken out ten years later with not a part missing.

[kohodog]

14. Ruh Roh. Somebody is in big trouble.

The question is how to bring it into the light.

Fitz?

[blm]

20. Corpmedia seems to be in clampdown. They are not reporting any of the heavy

revelations that are coming out of this trial.

[bobthedrummer]

30. Yep. Kick. n/t

[DemReadingDU]

19. morning kick

[bobthedrummer]

29. kick