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Officials blast handling of nuclear secrets case

Officials blast handling of nuclear secrets case
swisinfo.ch January 22, 2009
Parliament has strongly criticised the government for ordering documents destroyed in a case of Swiss engineers suspected of involvement in a nuclear smuggling ring.A delegation looking into the matter said that the reasons the government gave for doing so were not convincing and that briefings given to members of parliament were not sufficient. Destroying the documents had also compromised an investigation.Urs and Marco Tinner, along with their father, were arrested starting in 2004 on suspicion of aiding Libya’s atomic ambitions through a trafficking ring run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear programme.In November 2007, the cabinet ordered the case documents destroyed, saying it was in the interests of international security. The documents reportedly included designs for nuclear warheads. …………..
………….It is widely believed the Tinners worked as undercover agents for the United States intelligence service and that Washington asked Bern to destroy the documents.

A committee found that Switzerland’s government was wrong to destroy documents in a nuclear smuggling case. – swissinfo

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January 23, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties