A former CIA officer who managed intelligence reports on Saudi Arabia has sent an uncleared manuscript to congressional offices claiming that China supplied nuclear missiles to the kingdom early in the George W. Bush administration.
“I believe the People’s Republic of China delivered a turn-key nuclear ballistic missile system to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the course of several years beginning no later than December 2003,” writes Jonathan Scherck in a self-published book, “Patriot Lost,” which he provided to SpyTalk on Monday.
He also e-mailed copies to the offices of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
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When a CIA source says that a link was well established before 2003, then he should read better in the OSINT material available.
ReplyDeleteThe Chinese-Saudi link was enabled in the mid-1980s, when Saudi Arabia seeked for more strategic protection against Iran. There are numberous press reports related to this connection, and also the weapon chosen, namely the CSS-2 (DF-3A). Military analysts then questioned the military importance of this weapon, given the relatively large CEP (inaccuracy) of this missile for conventional use. In that time there were also rumours of a Pakistani nuclear connection, either through the delivery of nuclear warheads to defend the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina, and/or the delivery of (shorter-ranged) missiles. Eventually, long-range Chinese missiles were bought, and delivered in 1988. Two facilities have been identified, at Al Joffer and Al Sulayyil, approximately 90 and 450 km southwest of Riyadh, respectively. (For more information, see: http://geimint.blogspot.com/2009/02/saudi-arabias-ballistic-missile-force.html)