US nuclear scientist secretly taped by FBI claiming he could bomb New York By Gordon Duff and Jeff Smith with Ian Greenhalgh ___ Veterans ...
US nuclear scientist secretly taped by FBI claiming he could bomb New York
By Gordon Duff and Jeff Smith with Ian Greenhalgh
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Veterans Today, in cooperation with Los Alamos scientists, reported the story first — the real story — not the carefully-crafted coverup orchestrated among the FBI, the Department of Energy and the media.
Read the Guardian story, and then scroll down for the real role of Sandia Labs.
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From the Guardian UK
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Former Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear physicist Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni was sentenced to five years in prison after offering to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela. Photograph: Heather Clark/AP
Los Alamos scientist Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni jailed for five years after offering to build nuclear weapons for Venezuela and design a bomb targeted for New York City, in exchange for “money and power” — according to secret FBI recordings released Wednesday. In the recordings, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni tells an agent posing as a Venezuelan official that the bombs would prevent the United States from invading the oil-rich nation, and brags to his wife that the passing of secrets would make him wealthy.
“I’m going to be the boss with money and power,” the naturalized US citizen from Argentina is heard saying. “I’m not an American anymore. This is it.”
Mascheroni said his New York bomb wouldn’t kill anyone but would disable the city’s electrical system and help Venezuela become a nuclear superpower. It was not known how realistic his New York bombing idea was.
But he suggested that once Venezuela obtained a bomb, the country should explode it “to let the world know what we’ve got,” according to the recordings.
The recordings were played Wednesday in US District Court in Albuquerque before a federal judge sentenced Mascheroni, 79, to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release as part of a plea agreement.
Mascheroni and his wife, Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, pleaded guilty in 2013 to offering to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela through dealings with an undercover FBI agent posing as a representative of the South American country.
The US government did not allege Venezuela sought US secrets.
His wife received a year and a day in prison for conspiring with her husband to sell nuclear secrets.
Despite the evidence and the plea agreement, federal prosecutor Fred Federici said Pedro Mascheroni refused to admit he did anything wrong and has tried to argue that he was the victim of the federal government trying to trap him after being critical of US nuclear policy.
“He was no true hero,” Federici said. “He was simply a man who betrayed his country.”
Speaking to a judge, Mascheroni was defiant and said that if his case had gone to trial, a federal jury would have acquitted him. He said the information he passed onto the agent was already available online or simply was made up.
“I was basically selling used cars,” Mascheroni said during a long tirade in federal court that had to be interrupted by US District Judge William P. Johnson.
“What I was selling was completely science fiction.”
Before his indictment, Mascheroni was under investigation for about a year. The FBI had seized computers, letters, photographs, books and cellphones from the couple’s Los Alamos home.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Mascheroni said he believed the US government was wrongly targeting him as a spy and denied the accusations. The scientist said he approached Venezuela after the United States rejected his theories that a hydrogen-fluoride laser could produce nuclear energy.
Mascheroni worked in the nuclear weapons design division at the Los Alamos lab from 1979 until he was laid off in 1988. His wife, a technical writer, worked there between 1981 and 2010.
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By Gordon Duff and Jeff Smith with Ian Greenhalgh
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Veterans Today, in cooperation with Los Alamos scientists, reported the story first — the real story — not the carefully-crafted coverup orchestrated among the FBI, the Department of Energy and the media.
Read the Guardian story, and then scroll down for the real role of Sandia Labs.
_______________________________________________
From the Guardian UK
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Former Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear physicist Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni was sentenced to five years in prison after offering to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela. Photograph: Heather Clark/AP
Los Alamos scientist Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni jailed for five years after offering to build nuclear weapons for Venezuela and design a bomb targeted for New York City, in exchange for “money and power” — according to secret FBI recordings released Wednesday. In the recordings, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni tells an agent posing as a Venezuelan official that the bombs would prevent the United States from invading the oil-rich nation, and brags to his wife that the passing of secrets would make him wealthy.
“I’m going to be the boss with money and power,” the naturalized US citizen from Argentina is heard saying. “I’m not an American anymore. This is it.”
Mascheroni said his New York bomb wouldn’t kill anyone but would disable the city’s electrical system and help Venezuela become a nuclear superpower. It was not known how realistic his New York bombing idea was.
But he suggested that once Venezuela obtained a bomb, the country should explode it “to let the world know what we’ve got,” according to the recordings.
The recordings were played Wednesday in US District Court in Albuquerque before a federal judge sentenced Mascheroni, 79, to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release as part of a plea agreement.
Mascheroni and his wife, Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, pleaded guilty in 2013 to offering to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela through dealings with an undercover FBI agent posing as a representative of the South American country.
The US government did not allege Venezuela sought US secrets.
His wife received a year and a day in prison for conspiring with her husband to sell nuclear secrets.
Despite the evidence and the plea agreement, federal prosecutor Fred Federici said Pedro Mascheroni refused to admit he did anything wrong and has tried to argue that he was the victim of the federal government trying to trap him after being critical of US nuclear policy.
“He was no true hero,” Federici said. “He was simply a man who betrayed his country.”
Speaking to a judge, Mascheroni was defiant and said that if his case had gone to trial, a federal jury would have acquitted him. He said the information he passed onto the agent was already available online or simply was made up.
“I was basically selling used cars,” Mascheroni said during a long tirade in federal court that had to be interrupted by US District Judge William P. Johnson.
“What I was selling was completely science fiction.”
Before his indictment, Mascheroni was under investigation for about a year. The FBI had seized computers, letters, photographs, books and cellphones from the couple’s Los Alamos home.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Mascheroni said he believed the US government was wrongly targeting him as a spy and denied the accusations. The scientist said he approached Venezuela after the United States rejected his theories that a hydrogen-fluoride laser could produce nuclear energy.
Mascheroni worked in the nuclear weapons design division at the Los Alamos lab from 1979 until he was laid off in 1988. His wife, a technical writer, worked there between 1981 and 2010.
Read More - http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/02/02/vt-warning-of-emp-plot-confirmed-by-guardian/
