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Niger Memo Online

Jane Vaynman points out that the declassified Niger memo, as reported by Eric Lichtblau in the New York Times, is available at JudicialWatch.org

The memo makes some of the same logistical arguments about the difficulty of smuggling yellowcake—including the presence of “French managers and engineers at every point in the mining, milling and transportation process”—previously discussed in relation to the ridiculous FT articles alleging the uranium would be extracted from abandoned mines.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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