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Dutch Find CIA Had No Hand in Missing Khan Info
The CIA was not involved in the disappearance of a dossier used to prosecute former Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan in the Netherlands, Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner said Friday (see GSN, Aug. 9). Khan was convicted in abstentia in 1983 of stealing from a research center nuclear secrets he later used to develop the Pakistani bomb. His conviction was overturned in 1985 on a technicality, the Associated Press reported. Donner said in a letter to parliament released Friday that all that remained in the dossier was “a few administrative documents, such as the 1983 verdict and the decision on appeal in 1985.” Donner said the rest of the dossier was probably destroyed in the 1990s but that other possibilities could not be ruled out. The Justice Ministry plans to draft new guidelines so that materials from important cases will be preserved, he said. “As for the idea that the CIA played any role in the manner in which the criminal dossier of Khan was administered, no evidence of that was found,” Donner told parliament. According to former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, the CIA asked Dutch officials not to prosecute Khan when the theft was discovered in the 1970s and when Khan returned to the Netherlands in 1986. He said the CIA wanted to continue monitoring Khan (Associated Press/OutlookIndia.com, Dec. 9).
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