A former undercover informant says he provided evidence to the FBI during President Obama's first term that Russia was assisting Iran's nuclear program even as billions in new U.S. business flowed to Moscow's uranium industry.
William Douglas Campbell told The Hill his evidence included that Russia was intercepting nonpublic copies of international inspection reports on Tehran's nuclear program and sending equipment, advice and materials to a nuclear facility inside Iran.
Campbell said Russian nuclear executives were extremely concerned that Moscow's ongoing assistance to Iran might boomerang on them just as they were winning billions of dollars in new nuclear fuel contracts inside the United States.
"Moscow was supplying equipment, nuclear equipment, nuclear services to Iran. And Moscow, specifically the leadership in Moscow, were concerned that it would offset the strategy they had here in the United States if the United States understood the close relationship between Moscow and Tehran."
Notes of Campbell's FBI debriefings show he reported in 2010 that a Russian nuclear executive was using "The same kind of payment network" to move funds between Russia and Iran as was used to launder kickbacks between Moscow and Americans.
He said he became concerned the United States was providing favorable decisions to the Russian nuclear industry in 2010 and 2011 - clearing the way for Moscow to buy large U.S. uranium assets and to secure billions in nuclear fuel contracts - even as he reported evidence of Moscow's help to Iran.
In 2012, FBI agents asked Campbell to press a top Russian nuclear executive about the Iran assistance, providing a list of detailed questions.
http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/380366-informant-provided-fbi-evidence-russia-aided-iran-nuclear-program-during
William Douglas Campbell told The Hill his evidence included that Russia was intercepting nonpublic copies of international inspection reports on Tehran's nuclear program and sending equipment, advice and materials to a nuclear facility inside Iran.
Campbell said Russian nuclear executives were extremely concerned that Moscow's ongoing assistance to Iran might boomerang on them just as they were winning billions of dollars in new nuclear fuel contracts inside the United States.
"Moscow was supplying equipment, nuclear equipment, nuclear services to Iran. And Moscow, specifically the leadership in Moscow, were concerned that it would offset the strategy they had here in the United States if the United States understood the close relationship between Moscow and Tehran."
Notes of Campbell's FBI debriefings show he reported in 2010 that a Russian nuclear executive was using "The same kind of payment network" to move funds between Russia and Iran as was used to launder kickbacks between Moscow and Americans.
He said he became concerned the United States was providing favorable decisions to the Russian nuclear industry in 2010 and 2011 - clearing the way for Moscow to buy large U.S. uranium assets and to secure billions in nuclear fuel contracts - even as he reported evidence of Moscow's help to Iran.
In 2012, FBI agents asked Campbell to press a top Russian nuclear executive about the Iran assistance, providing a list of detailed questions.
http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/380366-informant-provided-fbi-evidence-russia-aided-iran-nuclear-program-during
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