Hillary Clinton Told FBI's Mueller To Deliver Uranium To Russians In 2009 "Secret Plane-Side Tarmac Meeting"

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton facilitated the transfer a highly enriched uranium (HEU) previously confiscated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) during a 2006 “nuclear smuggling sting operation involving one Russian national and several Georgian accomplices,” a newly leaked classified cable shows. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE85588_a.html

So-called “background” information was provided in the cable which gave vague details on a 2006 nuclear smuggling sting operation in which the U.S. government took possession of some HEU previously owned by the Russians.

"Over two years ago Russia requested a ten-gram sample of highly enriched uranium (HEU) seized in early 2006 in Georgia during a nuclear smuggling sting operation involving one Russian national and several Georgian accomplices. The seized HEU was transferred to U.S. custody and is being held at a secure DOE facility."

The secret “action request,” dated Aug. 17, 2009, was sent out by Secretary of State Clinton and was addressed to the United States Ambassador to Georgia Embassy Tbilisi, the Russian Embassy, and Ambassador John Beyrle.

It proposed that FBI Director Robert Mueller be the one that personally conduct the transfer a 10-gram sample of HEU to Russian law enforcement sources during a secret “plane-side” meeting on a “tarmac” in the early fall of 2009.

"We require that the transfer of this material be conducted at the airport, on the tarmac near by the plane, upon arrival of the Director's aircraft."

The FBI Director was originally scheduled to ‘return’ a sample from the DOE stockpile to the Russians in April but the trip was postponed until September 21.

Paragraph number 6 of the leaked cable confirms Dir. Mueller’s Sept. 21 flight to Moscow.

“(S/Rel Russia) Action request: Embassy Moscow is requested to alert at the highest appropriate level the Russian Federation that FBI Director Mueller plans to deliver the HEU sample once he arrives to Moscow on September 21. Post is requested to convey information in paragraph 5 with regard to chain of custody, and to request details on Russian Federation’s plan for picking up the material. Embassy is also requested to reconfirm the April 16 understanding from the FSB verbally that we will have no problem with the Russian Ministry of Aviation concerning Mueller’s September 21 flight clearance.”

But possibly even more shocking is the fact that the State Department wanted the transfer of the HEU to take place on an “airport tarmac” which is rather reminiscent of the infamous Loretta Lynch/Bill Clinton meeting which occurred on a Phoenix, Arizona, tarmac back in June of 2016. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-bill-clinton-loretta-lynch-meet-on-tarmac-in-phoenix/

Past dealings with the Russians were also mentioned in the cable, signifying that previous deals have taken place.

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This Wikileaks published copy of the cable is about the U.S. preparing to hand Russia a 10-gram sample of highly enriched uranium (HEU) that had been seized in Georgia in 2006 during a nuclear smuggling operation.

The main point is:

Russia had asked for the sample so it could perform nuclear forensic analysis.

Georgia had authorized the U.S. to share it with Russia.

The U.S. believed the uranium was likely stolen from a Russian facility.

The transfer had been planned earlier, but was delayed when FBI Director Robert Mueller’s April trip was canceled.

The document says Mueller planned to bring the sample to Moscow on September 21 and hand it over directly.

Why this mattered:

The U.S. wanted to push Russia to cooperate more seriously in investigating where the uranium came from and whether anyone in Russia had been prosecuted.

It also aimed to create a better U.S.-Russia system for cooperating on nuclear smuggling and nuclear forensics in the future.

The cable stresses that the sample must be handed only to a Russian law enforcement authority, specifically not just an intelligence or technical agency, and that the transfer should happen plane-side at the airport with proper chain of custody.

What the embassies were told to do:

Embassy Moscow was asked to notify Russian officials at a high level, confirm logistics, confirm who would receive the material, and make sure Mueller’s flight clearance was in place.

Embassy Tbilisi was told no action was needed yet, but Georgia would later be notified once the transfer was imminent.

In plain English:

This is a diplomatic instruction cable saying, essentially, “We’re finally bringing Russia the uranium sample it asked for, and we want this transfer to both move the criminal investigation forward and improve cooperation on nuclear smuggling.”

A notable implication is that the cable treats the material as something the U.S. believed may have originated in Russia, which is why the U.S. wanted Russia to investigate the diversion seriously.