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March 10, 2008

Bush Administration Refuses to Assist

Switzerland in Probing Nuclear Black
Market
By Wayne Madsen

WMR has received additional details in the case of the Tinners family, long suspected
of being key members in the CIA's counter-nuclear proliferation team and
cooperating elements for the outed Brewster Jennings & Associates CIA front
company.
On May 31, 2006, WMR reported, "the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office has
complained to the United States that the Bush administration has failed to cooperate
with Switzerland's efforts to track the A Q Khan nuclear proliferation network. The
Bush administration's multiple refusals to assist Switzerland in probing the Khan
network, which was a major target of the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division,
Brewster Jennings Associates, and Valerie Plame Wilson, was revealed by former UN
weapons inspector David Albright. Switzerland arrested three members of the Tinner
family -- Friedrich, Urs, and Marco -- for illegally supplying centrifuges from a
Malaysian company to Libya. Urs Tinner has been rumored to have been a U.S.
intelligence asset."
On February 19, 2008: "WMR has now learned from Swiss sources that last
November, the Swiss Federal Council, the Budesrat, passed a secret resolution to
destroy critical evidence in the Tinner case. Among the documents ordered
destroyed were plans and drawings involving nuclear weapons. The documents had
been seized by Swiss prosecutors in their case against the Tinners.
WMR has further learned that the Bush administration put pressure on the Swiss to
cease their prosecution of the Tinners and destroy all the evidence seized."
WMR has now learned that the documents in question have been destroyed by the
Swiss government. After revelations in the press (including WMR) about the
documents, the Swiss government passed a secret resolution authorizing the
destruction of the documents.
Socialist member of the Swiss Nationalrat Andre Daguet has tabled a question on the
documents. He wants to know whether the documents have, in fact, been destroyed
and when they were destroyed.
The documents reportedly contained the methods by which the CIA paid the Tinners.

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Authors Bio: For more, visit Wayne Madsen Report, which its publisher, Wayne
Madsen, keeps refreshed with more news than any one reporter has a right to.
Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist, nationally distributed columnist, and
author who has covered Washington, DC, politics, national security, and intelligence
issues since 1994. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ,
Counterpunch, and the Intelligence Newsletter (based in Paris).
Look for his new book, Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day: The Internet
Irregulars vs. The Powers That Be!, in the fall.