FBI Director Admits Russians May Have Secret Weapons in U.S.

NewsMax.com

November 8, 1999

FBI Director Louis Freeh admitted that Russia might still have stored

weapons – including nuclear suitcase bombs – at secret locations

around the U.S.

The stunning revelations appeared in yesterday’s editions of the New

York Post. The paper quoted Congressman Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) as

having had a conversation with Freeh in the past two weeks.

Weldon said that Freeh "acknowledged the possibility that hidden

weapons caches exist in the United States . . .”

Weldon, a leading congressional expert on Russia and chairman of the

House Armed Services subcommittee on military research and

development, said, "There is no doubt that the Soviets stored material in

this country. The question is what and where.”

Congressional scrutiny has focused on dozens of nuclear suitcase

bombs that have disappeared from Russian’s nuclear arsenal. According

to Russian sources, including Russian General Alexander Lebed, Russia

produced 132 nuclear suitcase bombs, each carrying 10-kilotons of

explosive material. Only 48 remain in Russia’s inventory, the rest have

disappeared.

The FBI has taken a nonchalant approach to locating the secret caches.

Congressional sources indicates that the FBI scoured the area around

Brainerd, Minn. -- one area Russian agents were believed to have

forward deployed weapons in the event of a war.

But Weldon said the Clinton administration is not interested in pressing

the Yeltsin government, for fear of destabilizing his shaky position

vis-à-vis the country’s military leadership.

Concerns about the secret stockpiles have been fueled in recent years

by revelations made by Russian defectors.

One KGB defector, Vasili Mitrokhin, provided information to British

intelligence that secret weapons stockpiles are scattered throughout the

U.S., including in upstate New York, California, Texas, Montana and

Minnesota.

Mitrokhin has also stated that such stockpiles were also made

throughout Europe. Some Russian weapons caches have been located in

Belgium and Switzerland.

Colonel Stanislav Lunev, the highest ranking military spy ever to defect

from Russia, has testified that the Soviet military developed elaborate

plans for the use of weapons during the outset of a war with the U.S.

Lunev said Russian military plans include the destruction of military

bases, command and control centers, and the assassination of top U.S.

leaders, including the president and members of Congress.

Lunev has also told members of Congress that suitcase nuclear devices

may have already been forward deployed into the U.S.

While the secret stockpiles appear to be remnants of the Cold War

period, Lunev, a NewsMax.com columnist and author of "Through the

Eyes of the Enemy,” has warned U.S. authorities that Soviet military

strategy continues under the guise of Russian "democracy.”

Lunev has stated that Russian military leaders continue to see a nuclear

conflict between Russia and the United States as "inevitable.”

In recent years, the Russian government has continued to invest heavily

in strategic weapons. Russia is currently mass producing the Topol-M

intercontinental missile -- a weapon more sophisticated than anything

produced by the U.S. military. Russia also continues to invest billions in

building large underground bunkers for use during a nuclear conflict.

Last month, the Yelstin government announced plans to increase

military spending by 50 percent in next year's budget.
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