Pentagon tried to silence NMD critic
Tuesday, June 27, 2000
UNITED STATES | A scientist who has been critical of the Pentagon's proposed
National Missile Defense [NMD] system, saying the available data show it will
not work, claims he has been visited by Pentagon security officials in a
"clumsy attempt" to silence him.
Pentagon officials downplayed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
professor Theodore Postol's claims and said instead that Defense Security
Service agents wanted only to find out how Postol got ahold of classified
information he included in a critique of the missile shield.
Postol discounted the Pentagon's explanation.
"There's no way any of this can be cast in terms that makes sense except that
it was an attempt to entrap and to try to intimidate me," he told Agence
France Press on Monday.
He told reporters that three agents appeared unannounced at his MIT office on
June 21, took him into a seminar room, closed the doors, and produced a
letter stamped "secret" for him to read.
Surprised, Postol said he refused to view the letter.
If the letter contained his own critique of the NMD system but was classified
as "secret", the Pentagon could say that he was violating secrecy rules by
talking about it, said Postol, a former navy science advisor with top secret
clearances.
Postol said agents did not say what was contained in the letter or who sent
it, but indicated it may have had something to do with a letter he sent to
the White House in May critiquing the NMD system.
His May 11 letter caused a sensation by accusing the Pentagon of rigging NMD
tests to hide that the system cannot distinguish a warhead from a decoy.
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