Obama Administration to Share Nuke Weapons Secrets with China

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Obama to Share Nuke Weapons Secrets with China

Obama Administration to Exchange Nuclear Weapons Technology with China

Inside the Ring

By Bill Gertz
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The Washington Times
7:51 p.m., Wednesday, December 21, 2011

NUKE SCIENTIST EXCHANGE PLANNED

Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel B. Poneman is working on a major Obama administration initiative that would renew scientist exchanges between U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories and Chinese nuclear facilities.

The idea is aimed at promoting openness and transparency by China’s military about its secret, large-scale buildup of nuclear weapons, according to U.S. officials.

Critics say the plan is similar to an exchange program in the 1990s that sent U.S. nuclear scientists to China and produced one of the worst cases of nuclear espionage. Secrets about every deployed warhead in the U.S. arsenal were compromised, including the W-88 small nuclear warhead deployed on submarine-launched missiles.

“We’ve seen this movie before, and it has a bad ending,” one official said.

Officials familiar with the plan told Inside the Ring that the initiative was discussed during a recent policy committee meeting of senior national security officials at the White House.

The initiative is part of the administration’s arms-control-centered security policies. According to the officials, the administration hopes to coax the reluctant Chinese communist leadership and its military into engaging the United States in strategic nuclear talks, something China so far has refused.

“This is a way to reach out to [the Chinese] with multilateral arms-control programs,” said a second U.S. official familiar with the plan.

The initiative likely will face opposition from Congress.

House Republicans added language to the 2012 Defense Authorization Act that restricts the Pentagon and Energy department from cooperating with Beijing in setting up a nuclear security center in China. The provision, when signed into law, will block funding for the center until the secretary of defense certifies that China has halted nuclear proliferation and that the center will be in line with U.S. interests.

U.S. intelligence has linked China to nuclear arms proliferation in Pakistan and other emerging nuclear states.

The second official said the plan evokes memories of the 1990s case of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Wen Ho Lee.

Former Energy Department intelligence chief Notra Trulock stated in his 2003 book that Lee, a scientist at Los Alamos’ weapons-designing X Division, provided sensitive nuclear weapons data to China during unreported meetings with nuclear weapons scientists as part of Energy’s exchange programs.

Lee was the U.S. government’s chief suspect in the compromise of W-88 warhead secrets to China.

The FBI, however, mishandled the case against him, and he was never charged with espionage. Instead, he pleaded guilty in September 2001 to a felony charge of mishandling classified information.

Lee denied being a spy and said he was targeted by the FBI because he is Chinese-American.

The FBI has said as recently as last year that it is still investigating the theft of U.S. nuclear secrets by China from the 1990s. But no one has been arrested for the crime since the Lee case.

U.S. counterintelligence in 1998 warned about China’s aggressive intelligence targeting of nuclear scientists. It stated that “rather than send its intelligence officers out to recruit knowledgeable sources at facilities such as the national laboratories, China prefers to exploit over time the natural scientist-to-scientist relationships.”

“Chinese scientists nurture relationships with national laboratory counterparts, issuing invitations for them to travel to laboratories and conferences in China,” the report on foreign spying against laboratories said.

Security officials say renewing the nuclear lab exchange also would reward China for massive cyberattacks against nuclear labs that have been ongoing for decades.

Energy Department spokesman Joshua McConaha said there currently is no nuclear initiative with China.

“There are periodic meetings to review our China activities, which currently cover a number of areas under our peaceful uses and science agreements,” he said, declining to discuss details of the meetings.

Chinese officials repeatedly have rejected U.S. calls for strategic nuclear talks, most recently in January during the visit there by then-Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.

A 2008 State Department cable quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry official He Yafei as rejecting U.S. appeals for Chinese nuclear transparency, noting that openness “would eliminate the value of China’s strategic deterrent.”

Meanwhile, Chinese military support for U.S. enemies appears to be growing. According to an Iranian press report from Dec. 4, Chinese Maj. Gen. Zhang Zhaozhong said, “China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third World War.”

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SHARING SECRETS WITH CHINA---AGAIN

By Joel Skousen Sat 24th Dec 2011



Why does the US persist in sharing near-top level nuclear secrets with their enemies? That is the question that got me started in the field of political science 40 years ago. They are still at it today, and it’s not stupidity. There is a powerful agenda to create war and to do that you have to help your enemies get ready to strike. Here’s the latest from Bill Gertz of the Washington Times on the Obama administration plans to once again let Chinese scientists into our top nuclear labs.

"Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel B. Poneman is working on a major Obama administration initiative that would renew scientist exchanges between U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories and Chinese nuclear facilities. The idea is aimed at promoting openness and transparency by China's military about its secret, large-scale buildup of nuclear weapons, according to U.S. officials

[but that’s always been a one-way street—from us to them].

"Critics say the plan is similar to an exchange program in the 1990s that sent U.S. nuclear scientists to China and produced one of the worst cases of nuclear espionage. Secrets about every deployed warhead in the U.S. arsenal were compromised, including the W-88 small nuclear warhead deployed on submarine-launched missiles. ‘We’ve seen this movie before, and it has a bad ending,’ one official said."

"The initiative is part of the administration’s arms-control-centered security policies. According to the officials, the administration hopes to coax the reluctant Chinese communist leadership and its military into engaging the United States in strategic nuclear talks, something China so far has refused."

Globalists always have to have a sly excuse to justify their blatant desire to betray national security by arming future enemies, and that is exactly what is happening.

Here’s more disturbing evidence of facilitating China’s arms industry. The BBC reported yesterday the shocking news that 69 Patriot missiles were heading from Germany to China: "The Finnish authorities have impounded an Isle of Man-flagged ship bound for China with undeclared missiles and explosives, officials say. Police are questioning the crew of the MS Thor Liberty after what were described as 69 Patriot anti-missile missiles were found aboard. Interior Minister Paivi Rasanen said the missiles were marked ‘fireworks.’"

The ship originated in Germany where the US stockpiles excess batteries of Patriot Missiles. These missiles are under the highest security, so this clearly is a black operation meant to transfer this technology to someone en route. The Germans claimed the missiles got loaded onto the ship by mistake, but if that were true, they’d have to explain why the missiles were put in boxes labeled "fireworks."

I don’t think they were meant for China. This would be too blatant a military transfer, and you’d have to have all the guidance radar units to enable the missiles to function. There were Finnish media reports that pointed out the ship had a scheduled stop in South Korea. That would be a more logical destination since South Korea is an ally. Why the cover shipment?

--Probably to evade provoking North Korea—that most unstable of nations.

NORTH KOREAN COUP?

There are rumors to that effect, but it would be more accurate to say that a fat spoiled brat had to be removed to keep the regime from becoming an even bigger dangerous laughing stock than it was. The unstable and enigmatic leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, is dead from a reported heart attack. However, not a few analysts in the South Korean intelligence service believe he was killed by those in power behind him. Peter Goodspeed of Reuters reports:

"While North Korea’s Central News Agency reported Monday that Mr. Kim died of a heart attack last Saturday on a train while heading to an unidentified destination, Seoul’s Korea Times newspaper ran a headline, ‘Suspicions arise over cause of death.’ According to the newspaper, North Korean defectors doubt Pyongyang’s state-controlled media reports of Mr. Kim’s death. They cautiously suggested the dictator may have been murdered.

"A political scientist, An Chan-il, was quoted as saying Mr. Kim may have been killed by elements within the North Korean government who disagreed with his policies. ‘After his third son Jung-un was named for a dynastic leadership succession, many military officers, especially those in their 50s, were dismissed,’ Mr. An told the Korea Times. ‘I think these people could have held deep resentment about Kim and North Korea’s next leader. A rumor is circulating that earlier a high-ranking North Korean official was shot dead,’ he said. ‘This has yet to be confirmed, but such talk is evidence that discontent was brewing among some people in the North.’"

If there was a coup it wasn’t by some lower ranking military officers. Kim Jong-il’s father Kim Il-sung was the first and last strongman leader of NK. His son who just died never had the power of his father and was surrounded by Generals of an older generation who controlled the actual affairs of the country. If he was removed, it was because they removed him.

Some have speculated that the reason was Kim Jong-il’s acceptance of a deal with the US to resume food aid in exchange for yet another suspension of nuclear activities. Frankly, I’m skeptical—not that the US wouldn’t offer aid again, but that military leaders would eliminate Jong-il over it. It’s a ploy that has worked for years (only because the US is determined to protect NK as a future trigger for WWIII).

It is obvious today that the young Kim Jong-un is even less capable of controlling national affairs than the father—and the economy was a disaster under Jong-il, who was known to drain the treasury for his own personal pleasures. But it serves the military class to keep up the appearance of a leadership cult under the Kim name. So obvious, in fact, that even the establishment press is acknowledging the role of the military:

Here’s Reuters again: "North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week's death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie, a source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing said. The source added that the military, which is trying to develop a nuclear arsenal, has pledged allegiance to the untested Kim Jong-un, who takes over the family dynasty that has ruled North Korea since it was founded after World War Two."

Notice the attempt to downplay North Korea’s existing nuclear weapons program—saying they are "trying," when they have already exploded a nuclear test bomb. Compare this to Iran’s puny efforts and the world claims a nuclear weapon in Iran is imminent. Make no mistake: North Korea is being protected from change by the same western powers that are rampaging through the Middle East, aimed at a larger war.


Obama plans nuclear scientist exchange with China... the same kind of exchange in which China stole tons of technology in the 1990's

Monday, December 26, 2011



Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel B. Poneman is working on a major Obama administration initiative that would renew scientist exchanges between U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories and Chinese nuclear facilities.

The idea is aimed at promoting openness and transparency by China’s military about its secret, large-scale buildup of nuclear weapons, according to U.S. officials.

Critics say the plan is similar to an exchange program in the 1990s that sent U.S. nuclear scientists to China and produced one of the worst cases of nuclear espionage. Secrets about every deployed warhead in the U.S. arsenal were compromised, including the W-88 small nuclear warhead deployed on submarine-launched missiles.

“We’ve seen this movie before, and it has a bad ending,” one official said.
Officials familiar with the plan told Inside the Ring that the initiative was discussed during a recent policy committee meeting of senior national security officials at the White House.

The initiative is part of the administration’s arms-control-centered security policies. According to the officials, the administration hopes to coax the reluctant Chinese communist leadership and its military into engaging the United States in strategic nuclear talks, something China so far has refused.
“This is a way to reach out to [the Chinese] with multilateral arms-control programs,” said a second U.S. official familiar with the plan. Read More