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Subject: MOSSAD & THE RUSSIAN MAFIA
MOSSAD AND THE
RUSSIAN MAFIA – AND HIGHLY EMBARRASSING CLAIMS THAT ISRAEL HAS BEEN TRYING TO
BUY PLUTONIUM AND OTHER NUCLEAR MATERIALS ALLEGEDLY TO STOP IT FALLING INTO THE
HANDS OF TERRORISTS by Gordon Thomas
Scientists at the
European Trans-Uranium Institute at Karlsruhe in Germany, tracking the movements
of all fissionable material from the former Soviet Union’s nuclear arsenal, have
raised suspicions that Mossad has purchased some of the material to allegedly
stop it falling into the hands of Islamic and other terror groups. But there
is also the real possibility that Israel has gone into the nuclear black market
to buy fissionable material to bolster its own huge nuclear arsenal. Israel
already has one of the world’s largest arsenals – more than capable of
decimating all its Arab neighbours. Its 200 nuclear bombs and missiles are
stockpiled in the Negev desert. The suspicion that Israel has also started to
buy material stolen from the former Soviet Union surfaced a year ago when a
quantity of Uranium-235 was found in the Paris apartment of three criminals
known to broker arms deals with terror groups like al-Qaeda. French
intelligence officers arrested the men in an apartment rented by one, Raymond
Loeb. They found documents confirming the uranium was of weapons-grade quality.
Air tickets from Kazakstan were found in the apartment. Loeb’s partners –
Serge Salfati and Yves Ekwella were travelling on Cameron passports. The
Karlsruhe scientists established the material came from a nuclear storage site
at Chelyanbisk-70 deep in the Ural Mountains. A major intelligence operation
began to trace the route along which the material travelled to the French
capital: out of the Ukraine into Poland and across Germany to Paris. The
material was transported by Russia’s top Mafia boss, Semyon Yokovich
Moglivich. He is a specialist in every major crime: whole scale drug running,
money laundering, trafficking in humans and gun-running. Since 1991, he had
positioned himself to exploit the collapse of the Soviet Union. To assist him
he had obtained an Israeli passport for himself and 23 of his top associates.
The travel documents had been arranged by the former newspaper tycoon, Robert
Maxwell, and Edmund Safra, the US-based millionaire banker. Later Maxwell was
murdered by a Mossad assassination team after threatening to expose his links to
the secret service. Safra died mysteriously in a fire in his penthouse in Monte
Carlo. Moglivich still runs the largest criminal family in Moscow, the Rising
Sun. Its current speciality is smuggling fissionable material. Graham Alison,
a former Assistant Secretary of Defence in the Clinton Administration and
director of Harvard’s Centre of Science and International Affairs, has
summarised how easy it is to smuggle nuclear material. “A terrorist group could
ship enough material through the mails or by a courier company”. But the
Rising Sun is into a much bigger market – supplying Israel with fissionable
material that would otherwise end up in the hands of terrorists like Osama bin
Laden. That bombshell discovery came to light in the wake of finding the five
grams of uranium in Paris. Consisting of 85 percent enriched uranium, it was
sufficient to make a “dirty bomb”. But before Mossad, on behalf of Israel,
could buy it “out of the market”, the French had swooped – and the role of
Mossad had started to emerge. The first clues came from Intel-1. This is a
smallish and highly specialised unit in Dutch intelligence. For months before
the Paris arrests, it had been investigating Mossad’s role in secretly buying up
fissionable materials. Intel-1’s investigation has been run out of a deep
bunker – ironically built to shelter the Dutch Royal Family in the event of a
Soviet nuclear attack on Amsterdam. The bunker is near the city’s Central
Railway Station. The terminus has been journey’s end for some of the nuclear
materials which have been stolen from Russian weapons labs including Arzamas-16
in Nizhnii Novgorod, formerly Gorky. Senior Mossad officers have insisted to
Intel-1 that precisely because the deadly materials were stolen, their agents
purchased them from the Russian Mafia as “it was the only way to stop the
material being sold to Islamic and other terror groups”. While conceding that
the Mossad claim is plausible, Intel-1 investigators have become convinced that
the nuclear materials have been secretly shipped out of Amsterdam’s Schipol
Airport to Israel to boost the country’s own nuclear weapons manufacturing plant
at Dimona in the Negev Desert. That Mossad has been trafficking with the
Russian Mafia has rekindled a nuclear nightmare that has never quite gone away.
While the chilling Cold War doctrine of MAD – mutually assured destruction – has
gone, in its place has come a more dangerous scenario where nuclear know-how and
materials are on sale. “It is capitalism, Wild East style, in which organised
crime syndicates and government officials work in league to create new markets
for nuclear materials – a bazaar with some of the world’s most dangerous weapons
on offer,” said an intelligence source. Much of the work of tracing the
origins of stolen nuclear material is done at the European Trans-Uranium
Institute. There, scientists use state-of-the-art equipment to track whether
stolen materials have come from a military or civilian source. But they concede
“it’s like trying to catch a thief who has never been fingerprinted”. Mossad
has been based at El Al’s facility at Schipol for the past six years, in
second-floor offices in the complex – know at Schipol as “Little
Israel”. Intel-1 has established that the link between Mossad and the airline
is an integral part of the traffic in nuclear materials. Sources close to
Intel-1 insist that Mossad would never have begun the dangerous business of
buying nuclear materials unless those materials could be safely and secretly
transported to Israel. A highly efficient organisation like Mossad, supported
by the vast resources Israel puts at its disposal, would have little or no
difficulty in smuggling nuclear materials out of Schipol. Intel-1’s interest
in such smuggling was first aroused when it was tipped off that the El Al cargo
freighter that crashed shortly after take-off from Schipol in October 1992 was
carrying chemicals that could be used to produce nerve agents. Since then,
the agency has gathered what an Intel source describes as “at minimum strong
circumstantial evidence” that Mossad has shipped nuclear materials through
Schipol. A “mule” – a courier – who in return for his cooperation was given a
guarantee against prosecution, has told Intel-1 that he had smuggled nuclear
materials from the Ukraine across Germany and finally into Holland. The
courier has claimed to Intel-1 that he was met at Amsterdam’s Central Station.
Shown photographs, the courier picked out the person. It was a Mossad officer
Intel-1 knew is based at Schipol.
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