Did Russia Fool U.S. Intelligence on Iraq, Iran and Syrian WMD?

According to the Intelligence Summit, Saddam's secret archives prove he really did have WMD and the Russians helped him hide them in Syria. The Russian cover-up is beginning to collapse, the group says. Israel bombed Saddam's WMD storehouse in Syria on Sept. 6, 2007. The Intelligence Summit, a non patisan NGO, details the deadly documents that Saddam and the Russians tried to hide.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) December 7, 2007 -- On Wednesday evening, Dec.12, 2007, John Loftus, President of the non-partisan Intelligence Summit, will address the McLendon Group of the National Press Club in Washington DC. Loftus will review documents recently discovered in Saddam's secret archives as well as satellite photos that may resolve (or at least reopen) the debate about missing Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in the Middle East. An Executive Summary at www.IntelligenceSummit.org explains how the Iraqi archives consistently document that Saddam really did have WMD projects (including A-bomb research) late into 2002. According to the Intelligence Summit, on the eve of war in 2003, Russian Special Forces evacuated Saddam's WMD material across the border to a secret storage area in Dayr as Zorr (Deir al Zour), Syria.

It is no coincidence, Loftus says, that on September 6, 2007, this same area, Dayr as Zorr, Syria, was bombed by the Israel Defense Forces. A detailed research paper at www.LoftusReport.com, argues that it was not a Syrian nuclear reactor that was destroyed, but a radiological weapons factory built on the same site as Saddam's secret storehouse for WMD. Israeli sources allege that the North Koreans were helping Syria mix highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Iraq with North Korean plutonium to make super-toxic dirty bombs. Given Syria's close alliance with Iran, it seems quite plausible that Syria has served as a secret nuclear weapons storage site for both Iraq and Iran, says Loftus. It is possible, indeed likely, that the recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran was tainted by the same Russian disinformation that successfully concealed the Iraqi WMD from discovery for so long, he said

Loftus says confirmation of a massive disinformation campaign has come from an unlikely source: retired agents of the Russian Military Intelligence service, the GRU. He says Russian smear propaganda specifically targeted Michael Cherney, an Israeli billionaire who was the largest single financial supporter of the Summit's WMD research into Iraq, Iran and Syria. Loftus said the National Director of Intelligence (NDI) blacklisted the Intelligence Summit from receiving federal funding because it accepted donations from Michael Cherney, whom the NDI allegedly falsely accused of being "a leader of the Russian Mafia under active investigation for money laundering."

To the chagrin of the NDI, Israeli police have just arrested four people, who were caught with documents and emails proving that they were hired to bribe journalists and politicians into making false accusations against Michael Cherney, says Loftus. The effect of this Russian smear campaign was to trick the NDI into discrediting Michael Cherney, the Intelligence Summit and all of its WMD research into Iraq, Iran and Syria. Loftus says that hiding these interconnected WMD programs may have been the most effective disinformation operation conducted in modern times. The Russian government denies any official connection, and says these retired agents were rogue operatives on the payroll of a business competitor who was trying to get out of paying a five billion dollar debt to Cherney, and were not working for the GRU.

Contact:
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President of the Intelligence Summit
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Email: LoftusHome@cs.com

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