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CIA Secrets Could Surface In Swiss Case
« on: December 24, 2010, 03:27:32 PM »

"..........prosecuting the case could also expose in court a tale of C.I.A. break-ins in Switzerland, and of a still unexplained decision by the agency not to seize electronic copies of a number of nuclear bomb designs found on the computers of the Tinner family.

One of those blueprints came from an early Chinese atomic bomb; two more advanced designs were from Pakistan's program, investigators from several countries have said.

Ultimately, copies of those blueprints were found around the globe on the computers of members of the Khan network, leading investigators to suspect that they made their way to Iran, North Korea and perhaps other countries. In 2003, atomic investigators found one of the atomic blueprints in Libya and brought it back to the United States for safekeeping."


http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10357/1113222-82.stm


I love reading about this kind of stuff.

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Re: CIA Secrets Could Surface In Swiss Case
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2010, 05:32:01 PM »
By the way, along similar lines, I just finished "The Dead Hand" [ The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy ] by David E. Hoffman. A great read. Winner of the Pulitzer Prise. I highly recommend it.

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Re: CIA Secrets Could Surface In Swiss Case
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2010, 09:01:42 PM »
A fascinating search for the truth.

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