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New Insights On Saudi Arabia’s Strategic Rocket Forces Revealed In Exposé On Kingdom’s Covert Transition from Aging Chinese CSS-2 Missile Arsenal to New Mobile CSS-5 Nuclear Capability
PATRIOT LOST Author Accuses Former Vice President Dick Cheney of High Crime and George Tenet’s CIA Management of Criminal Misconduct In Handling of Saudi Intelligence
Los Angeles, California, June 17, 2010 – PATRIOT LOST, by Jonathan Scherck, uncovers former Vice President Dick Cheney’s decision to turn a blind eye to Saudi Arabia’s acquisition of nuclear capable CSS-5 medium range ballistic missiles from the People’s Republic of China during the George W. Bush administration.
The book also implicates former Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet and senior agency veteran Charles Allen in a cover-up of U.S. satellite imagery in late-2003, imagery that provided initial warning of Riyadh’s oil-for-nuclear weapons deal with Beijing.
U.S. complicity in such a drastic change in the balance of power in the Middle East is problematic for Washington in 2010. President Barack Obama has sought to engage Beijing at the tactical level on the problem of nuclear terrorism while at the same time opting to maintain the Bush era strategy of non-intervention in China’s state-to-state nuclear proliferation practices.
“President Obama’s Nuclear Security Conference held in Washington in April 2010, focusing on the need to keep nuclear materiel out of the hands of international terrorists, was without question a step in the right direction. But such tactical level efforts will only go so far in reigning in the spread of nuclear weapons throughout the world.” – from PATRIOT LOST
Scherck’s account was written from his perspective as a Collection Management Officer working in CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division and is based on direct knowledge of previously undisclosed U.S. satellite imagery analysis of shipments originating from China to Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Islamic Seaport. In this role, Scherck was also privy to interactions with Cheney’s Office of the Vice President specifically on the Saudi nuclear issue.
“…I think we can all agree looking back now that the act in question—this misguided contempt for speaking truth to power, as it were—was less a classified matter than simply a criminal one.
Likewise, as to the liberties I have knowingly taken herein in discussing otherwise classified imagery analysis, I am no less convinced. The events
captured by U.S. spy satellites flying high above the Arabian Peninsula can hardly be considered in their proper context as an American state secret. Surely, those many illicit Chinese shipments into Saudi Arabia pose far less a threat to America’s national security than to the people of the Middle East.” – from PATRIOT LOST
According to the book, Scherck was frequently at odds with analysts working in the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence who were skeptical at the time of Riyadh’s interest in upgrading to the CSS-5, even amidst overwhelming imagery analysis published by the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency. Saudi Arabia acquired a conventional missile capability (China’s CSS-2) in the 1980s as part of a deal brokered by Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan. Riyadh has yet to officially acknowledge its Strategic Rocket Forces’ transition to the mobile CSS-5 delivery system.
PATRIOT LOST was first published earlier this month as an eBook, nearly 60 days after being submitted to the CIA’s Publication Review Board (PRB) for approval. Preliminary manuscript reviews typically take 30 days or less, according to the PRB. After receiving no response of any sort (beyond the initial confirmation of receipt), Scherck decided to make the book available to the public.
Source: Know Thyself Enterprises, LLC
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New Insights On Saudi Arabia’s Strategic Rocket Forces Revealed In Exposé On Kingdom’s Covert Transition from Aging Chinese CSS-2 Missile Arsenal to New Mobile CSS-5 Nuclear Capability
PATRIOT LOST Author Accuses Former Vice President Dick Cheney of High Crime and George Tenet’s CIA Management of Criminal Misconduct In Handling of Saudi Intelligence
Los Angeles, California, June 17, 2010 – PATRIOT LOST, by Jonathan Scherck, uncovers former Vice President Dick Cheney’s decision to turn a blind eye to Saudi Arabia’s acquisition of nuclear capable CSS-5 medium range ballistic missiles from the People’s Republic of China during the George W. Bush administration.
The book also implicates former Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet and senior agency veteran Charles Allen in a cover-up of U.S. satellite imagery in late-2003, imagery that provided initial warning of Riyadh’s oil-for-nuclear weapons deal with Beijing.
U.S. complicity in such a drastic change in the balance of power in the Middle East is problematic for Washington in 2010. President Barack Obama has sought to engage Beijing at the tactical level on the problem of nuclear terrorism while at the same time opting to maintain the Bush era strategy of non-intervention in China’s state-to-state nuclear proliferation practices.
“President Obama’s Nuclear Security Conference held in Washington in April 2010, focusing on the need to keep nuclear materiel out of the hands of international terrorists, was without question a step in the right direction. But such tactical level efforts will only go so far in reigning in the spread of nuclear weapons throughout the world.” – from PATRIOT LOST
Scherck’s account was written from his perspective as a Collection Management Officer working in CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division and is based on direct knowledge of previously undisclosed U.S. satellite imagery analysis of shipments originating from China to Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Islamic Seaport. In this role, Scherck was also privy to interactions with Cheney’s Office of the Vice President specifically on the Saudi nuclear issue.
“…I think we can all agree looking back now that the act in question—this misguided contempt for speaking truth to power, as it were—was less a classified matter than simply a criminal one.
Likewise, as to the liberties I have knowingly taken herein in discussing otherwise classified imagery analysis, I am no less convinced. The events
captured by U.S. spy satellites flying high above the Arabian Peninsula can hardly be considered in their proper context as an American state secret. Surely, those many illicit Chinese shipments into Saudi Arabia pose far less a threat to America’s national security than to the people of the Middle East.” – from PATRIOT LOST
According to the book, Scherck was frequently at odds with analysts working in the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence who were skeptical at the time of Riyadh’s interest in upgrading to the CSS-5, even amidst overwhelming imagery analysis published by the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency. Saudi Arabia acquired a conventional missile capability (China’s CSS-2) in the 1980s as part of a deal brokered by Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan. Riyadh has yet to officially acknowledge its Strategic Rocket Forces’ transition to the mobile CSS-5 delivery system.
PATRIOT LOST was first published earlier this month as an eBook, nearly 60 days after being submitted to the CIA’s Publication Review Board (PRB) for approval. Preliminary manuscript reviews typically take 30 days or less, according to the PRB. After receiving no response of any sort (beyond the initial confirmation of receipt), Scherck decided to make the book available to the public.
Source: Know Thyself Enterprises, LLC
Los Angeles, California
[email protected]
www.patriotlost.us
http://www.*************/?uuez4dxxuygbtlc
http://www.*************/?uuez4dxxuygbtlc
http://lewis.armscontrolwonk.com/arc...-and-saudi-bms
DF-21 is NATO reporting name CSS-5
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