Edmonds: Brewster Jennings outted in 2001 Diane Sweet

Published: Sunday January 27, 2008



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Print This Email This Former FBI agent turned whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds, has claimed that a senior official in the U.S. State Department tipped off a foreign contact to a CIA investigative cover during an investigation into a nuclear spy ring. In today's Timesonline, the third in a series of interviews with the former FBI translator, Edmonds reveals that the official told one of the CIA's foreign contacts in 2001 that Brewster Jennings & Associates -- a firm that existed with little more than a name and telephone number -- was a cover for the U.S. government. Brewster Jennings was also a front for former CIA agent Valerie Plame -- wife of former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson -- who was publicly outted in 2003 by White House officials. From the Sibel Edmonds interview: "One group of Turkish agents who had come to America on the pretext of researching alternative energy sources was introduced to Brewster Jennings through the Washington-based American Turkish Council (ATC), a lobby group that aids commercial ties between the countries. Edmonds says the Turks believed Brewster Jennings to be energy consultants and were planning to hire them. But she said: He [the State Department official] found out about the arrangement . . . and he contacted one of the foreign targets and said . . . you need to stay away from Brewster Jennings because they are a cover for the government. The target . . . immediately followed up by calling several people to warn them about Brewster Jennings. At least one of them was at the ATC. This person also called an ISI person to warn them. If the ISI was made aware of the CIA front company, then this would almost certainly have damaged the investigation into the activities of Khan. Plames cover would also have been compromised, although Edmonds never heard her name mentioned on the intercepts. Shortly afterwards, Plame was moved to a different operation." A State Department official vehemently denied Edmonds' claims, calling them "both false and malicious. Plame-Wilson declined comment citing her inability to comment on her covert work with the CIA. To read the full interview, click HERE. For more details on the developing revelations by Edmonds, see the diary at Daily Kos by Sibel Edmonds 'expert', blogger Lukery, HERE, and at the Democratic Underground HERE.



