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United States Shared Information on Pakistani Scientists for Years, Official Says
The United States yesterday said it had shared information on nuclear proliferation activities by Pakistani scientists with Pakistan for several years, rebuffing accusations by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that Washington had only tipped him off recently (see GSN, Feb. 10). On Monday, Musharraf said the United States had provided him with information on nuclear proliferation activities by Pakistani scientists beginning in October. U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said yesterday, though, that the issue had been one of concern between the United States and Pakistan “over a long period of time.” He also said U.S. officials had provided Pakistan occasionally with “pieces of information” on the issue (BBC News, Feb. 11). Meanwhile, U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton said Monday that the United States is concerned that Pakistani scientists may have provided nuclear technology to countries other than the confessed-to Iran, Libya and North Korea. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Bolton said the United States accepts Pakistan’s assertions that its scientists acted on their own without government approval. He also said, though, that there are still concerns about whether other countries acquired technology from Pakistani scientists and the possibility that buyers later resold the technology to other countries. “If part of that network is exposed, you don’t really know whether you’ve exposed all of it or not, or brought it down,” Bolton said (James Sterngold, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 10).
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