12-10-2019, 01:20 AM
After finishing the book I have to say that it's a certainty that plutonium from Kerr-McGee was being diverted to a foreign country, just as the uranium at NUMEC was.
I won't go into all the details here, but the evidence is very compelling. I strongly recommend Richard Rashke's book, it was a great read.
My conclusion based on the material in the book is that Karen Silkwood---who was wiretapped before her death and under surveillance---was probably murdered by Jim Angleton's Staff D due to the fact that evidence in the FBI's June Mail (highly sensitive material--the highest--FBI's "secret filing system" from that era) indicates Silkwood's wiretaps were related to the NSA, meanwhile Angleton managed the CIA's nuclear diversion program while his Staff D worked with NSA. So Silkwood sticking her nose into an Angleton operation seems to have caused wiretaps that were probably initiated by his office and also had NSA fingerprints on them according to one of Rashke's FBI sources. He looked in the FBI's June Mail at the Silkwood files and said that the wiretaps possessed an "NSA code word" (or words to that effect). All of this makes me think back to Lisa Pease's great essay on Angleton and Staff D in the book 'The Assassinations', which I can't recommend enough.
Another possibility is that Angleton or someone else in the IC notified the intelligence services of Iran (SAVAK) or Israel (MOSSAD) (whichever country the K-M plutonium was going to) that Silkwood was about to provide the NY Times with evidence of plutonium theft, and they murdered her.
I suspect Angleton. I believe that had DCI Colby been aware of this (and he certainly would have been in a position to find out) it would have contributed to his already growing resentment for Angleton and his people running wild. I believe that the assassination of an American citizen on U.S. soil that resulted in incredible media attention would have probably made Colby furious. Colby was by no means lily-white, but this smacks of something that he probably would have thought 'crossed the line' while Angleton probably would have thought it was something completely warranted. What would JJA think about Silkwood--"She's a union communist and could expose one of my operations" -- what would JJA do? We know the answer to that.
Just my speculation based upon what the book says.
--Richard
I won't go into all the details here, but the evidence is very compelling. I strongly recommend Richard Rashke's book, it was a great read.
My conclusion based on the material in the book is that Karen Silkwood---who was wiretapped before her death and under surveillance---was probably murdered by Jim Angleton's Staff D due to the fact that evidence in the FBI's June Mail (highly sensitive material--the highest--FBI's "secret filing system" from that era) indicates Silkwood's wiretaps were related to the NSA, meanwhile Angleton managed the CIA's nuclear diversion program while his Staff D worked with NSA. So Silkwood sticking her nose into an Angleton operation seems to have caused wiretaps that were probably initiated by his office and also had NSA fingerprints on them according to one of Rashke's FBI sources. He looked in the FBI's June Mail at the Silkwood files and said that the wiretaps possessed an "NSA code word" (or words to that effect). All of this makes me think back to Lisa Pease's great essay on Angleton and Staff D in the book 'The Assassinations', which I can't recommend enough.
Another possibility is that Angleton or someone else in the IC notified the intelligence services of Iran (SAVAK) or Israel (MOSSAD) (whichever country the K-M plutonium was going to) that Silkwood was about to provide the NY Times with evidence of plutonium theft, and they murdered her.
I suspect Angleton. I believe that had DCI Colby been aware of this (and he certainly would have been in a position to find out) it would have contributed to his already growing resentment for Angleton and his people running wild. I believe that the assassination of an American citizen on U.S. soil that resulted in incredible media attention would have probably made Colby furious. Colby was by no means lily-white, but this smacks of something that he probably would have thought 'crossed the line' while Angleton probably would have thought it was something completely warranted. What would JJA think about Silkwood--"She's a union communist and could expose one of my operations" -- what would JJA do? We know the answer to that.
Just my speculation based upon what the book says.
--Richard
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