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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 06:35 PM Jan 2015

Videos Capture US Nuclear Physicist Offering 'Venezuelan Spy' Nuke Info

Videos Capture US Nuclear Physicist Offering 'Venezuelan Spy' Nuke Info
Jan 28, 2015, 3:01 PM ET
By BRIAN ROSS, LEE FERRAN and MUSTAFA HAMEED

New hidden camera videos made public today by the government show a former American nuclear physicist covertly meeting with a man who he believed to be a Venezuelan intelligence officer in order to sell his expertise, as well as classified information, to the South American nation.

In one from 2008, nuclear physicist Pedro Mascheroni, former scientist in the X-Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1980s, tells the other man, who is really an undercover FBI agent, that Venezuela could test a nuclear bomb in the Pacific to put the U.S. on notice.

“Everybody sees it. You don’t kill anybody. Now you tell the United States, ‘Not only do we have this, but we have other designs… You have to come up and say to the other nations, 'We are going to be, we’re going to have an umbrella for everybody. If any nation outside Latin America attacks any nation inside Latin America, we are going to retaliate with a nuclear bomb,'" he says,

Mascheroni is a naturalized American citizen from Argentina.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/videos-capture-us-nuclear-physicist-offering-venezuelan-spy/story?id=28553152

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Videos Capture US Nuclear Physicist Offering 'Venezuelan Spy' Nuke Info (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2015 OP
Whoa! WTF? Peace Patriot Jan 2015 #1

Peace Patriot

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1. Whoa! WTF?
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 04:55 AM
Jan 2015

I'm thinking "spy vs. spy" (Mad Magazine), i.e., CIA vs. FBI? Um, CIA contrives a sort of sting against Venezuela's spy agency--trying to get Venezuela to do something foolish (like blowing off a nuke in the Pacific) that would justify an invasion to get the BIGGEST RESERVES OF CRUDE OIL ON EARTH back into Exxon Mobil's hands; the FBI stumbles into the CIA contrivance, unknowingly, thinking it's a terrorist plot or something, and unwittingly foils the CIA plot. Maybe FBI got tipped off by Venezuela's spy agency (which I think is quite a savvy intelligence service)?

???

Anyway, Gawd!

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