Brazen Nuke Facility Raid An Inside Job?
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... highly enriched uranium, or HEU, and provides details that point to an inside job. The interview will be broadcast this Sunday, Nov. 23, at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Gerber, a 30-year employee at the Pelindaba facility, was in the plant's Emergency Control Center at 1 a.m. last November when the attackers broke into the building. They had breached and shut off a 10,000-volt barbed-wire fence and eluded security cameras and guards at one of the country’s most secure facilities. Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/20/60minutes/mai...
Loose Nukes And Loose Knowledge
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... A year ago this month, armed raiders broke into the Pelindaba nuclear research facility in South Africa, where that nation stores its weapons-grade nuclear material, in circumstances that strongly suggest inside knowledge and even insider complicity in the raid. They shot an employee in the chest and made a clean escape from the supposedly high security facility, and still know one knows who they were and there aren't even any worthwhile leads to tracking them down.
Tonight, 60 Minutes talks to Anton Gerber, the shot employee, who only deepens the mystery. ...
