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To: kumar who wrote (69036)	1/27/2003 1:05:08 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

re: whatever is given to the UN is given to Saddam. The UN leaks like a sieve. We UNSCOM inspectors simply did not have the resources to win a game of hide and seek. The same is true today. The number of inspectors was always terribly small -- seldom more than 300 in the country at any one time. And we were totally outclassed by Iraqi security, which had managed to infiltrate the United Nations in Vienna and New York, as well as the Bahrain office of UNSCOM. In late 1991, when we seized more than 100,000 pages of information on Iraq's nuclear weapons program, we found one particularly surprising document. In it, the head of Iraqi security warned the chief security official of the facility holding the documents that in 10 days I would be leading a team to search his building and he should remove all sensitive material from this facility. The document was dated less than 48 hours after the decision had been made that I would lead this team! At the time fewer than 10 people in the United Nations and IAEA knew about this mission. -David Kay, former chief nuclear weapons inspector of UNSCOM Message 18475289