Dutch ex PM says Pakistan nuclear spy helped by CIA

This video says about itself:

This 2007 BBC documentary episode 5 “The Terror Trader” of the series “The Nuclear Secrets” exposes Pakistani A Q Khan’s nuclear proliferation activities. Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan started working for URENCO in The Netherlands in 1972. Working for the Pakistani government, Khan gained access to technology due to lax security methods. Returning to Pakistan with his family in 1975, Dutch enquiries in the 1980s finally reveal Khan’s actions but he gets off on a technicality. The U.S. overlooks Khan’s program in order to gain Pakistani support against the USSR in Afghanistan.

From the Google cache.

Dutch ex PM: Pakistan nuclear spy helped by CIA

Date: 8/9/05 at 9:08PM

Mood: Looking Playing: War, by Edwin Starr

Translated from Dutch NOS TV:

US American intelligence service CIA in 1975 and in 1986 has stopped Dutch authorities from arresting Pakistani nuclear spy Khan.

Dutch ex prime minister Lubbers said this in VPRO radio program Argos.

US daily New York Times already wrote on this affair last year, based on anonymous sources. Now, Lubbers confirms this.

In the 1970s, Abdul Khan stole nuclear secrets from Dutch Ultra Centrifuge, part of Urenco in Almelo.

With this, in the 1990s he built the Pakistani nuclear bomb. He also sold his knowledge to Iran, North Korea, and Libya.

Suspicion

In 1975 there already was suspicion what Khan was doing, and Dutch authorities thought about arresting him.

According to Lubbers, however, the CIA wanted Khan to continue with his activities “in order to get more information” [the CIA and Pakistani military dictators being close pals; as Lubbers said during the interview; not included on NOS TV web article].

In the 1980s, Khan had to appear in court at last, but was freed due to legal errors.

Lubbers, then prime minister, wanted the court case to continue.

However, he did not carry on, on the “advice” of security services [CIA pals].

Dutch Attorney General Donner still last year denied that there had been meddling by secret services in the Khan affair.

VPRO radio investigated the affair jointly with Japanese television.

They are making a documentary on the affair, as now it is sixty years ago that Japan was hit by two US nuclear bombs, on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

See also here.

And here.

Khan and Saddam Hussein: here.

Hiroshima 1945 and US and Japanese media manipulation: here.

Remember Hiroshima, US nuclear weapons out of Volkel, The Netherlands: here.