CIA Director General Michael Hayden stuck to the size estimate of the Al Kibar yesterday, comparing it to Yongbyon: “In the course of a year after they got full up, they would have produced enough plutonium for one or two weapons,” Hayden told reporters after a speech. The reactor was of a “similar size and …
Hecker, Luse & Wit: NORK Images & Report
by | 2008-04-28 | 5 Comments
Siegfried Hecker examining machining lathes removed from machine shop at the Yongbyon, North Korea, fuel fabrication facility. This image is one of eighteen photographs by Hecker and SFRC staffer Keith Luse. I was surprised to see the images online, as well as a trip report by Luse for members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, …
Just How Big Was Al Kibar Again?
by | 2008-04-27 | 62 Comments
I just love my job. I am like a kid in a candy store with all these photos of Al Kibar. A couple of things don’t add up just yet. Not saying they won’t eventually, but I am trying to work through the evidence with some rigor. Despite early press reports that the fuel channels …
Full Text of the Syria Briefing
by | 2008-04-25 | 33 Comments
From a reader. Update: Since the full text is now online at the DNI website, I have moved the full text to the comments.
