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To: SOROS who wrote (41281)	9/11/2005 6:26:21 PM
From: TH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

I recall this story from last year. It is very possible such weapons are available. I do not know if Mosnews is the Russian equivalent of the National Enquirer. GT TH mosnews.com Berezovsky Foils $3M Nuclear Suitcase Plot — Sunday Times Created: 25.10.2004 13:32 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:32 MSK MosNews Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has tipped off the British media about his role in foiling a plot by Chechen terrorists to sell a nuclear device — one of the legendary “atomic suitcases” - on the international black market. Berezovsky, who resides in England and is Britain’s 14th richest man, told The Sunday Times that an exiled Chechen named Zakhar contacted him by phone in 2002 saying he was the intermediary of a man who wanted to sell a nuclear bomb concealed in a suitcase. The Russian tycoon had previously helped Zakhar by giving him $5,000 when the two men were in exile in Paris. “I didn’t hear from him again until he rang me when I was in England and said he had enormous, very important information about nuclear weapons,” The Sunday Times quoted Berezovsky as saying. “I informed the American embassy in London. I told them it could be serious or it could be a provocation.” Berezovsky asked Yuli Dubov, a business associate and fellow exile, to investigate the background to the plot. Dubov said that Zakhar had claimed that the portable bomb was one of several made by Soviet scientists during the early 1990s. “One of them disappeared during the mess of the early 1990s,” Dubov wrote in a report. “The person who holds this suitcase with a bomb wants to sell it and he (Zakhar) is empowered to act for him.” “Zakhar approached Berezovsky. The price asked for it is not large, only $3m. The idea is that Berezovsky pays $3 million and advises on whom the A-bomb should be delivered (to). Zakhar will then organise everything in the best possible way,” Dubov was quoted as saying. Berezovsky arranged a taped meeting between his men and Zakhar in Paris. He then sent the tape to the CIA. During a subsequent meeting, arranged at the behest of the CIA in London, Zakhar was asked by Berezovsky’s aide to provide evidence that the nuclear device existed. But Zakhar, by this time suspecting a trap, failed to do so, according to Berezovsky’s account. Berezovsky said that he reported the matter to British intelligence through an intermediary. Berezovsky told the newspaper that was the end of the affair as he knew of it. A senior Whitehall security official confirmed to The Sunday Times that MI5 was aware that Berezovsky had approached the authorities on several occasions “offering to assist in investigations into the supply of illicit nuclear and radiological materials.” “He has made these allegations to the authorities in private, but we can’t discuss the details,” the official was quoted as saying. Intelligence in Europe and the United States suspects that Chechen rebels may have gotten their hands on nuclear materials stolen from the Rostov region, in southern Russia. Security concerns abound surrounding Russia’s nuclear arsenal, which has been poorly protected since the mayhem that followed the breakup of the Soviet Union.