The head of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan commented on the "nuclear" operation "Sapphire"

The head of the Kazakh National Security Committee, Karim Massimov, gave an interview to the newspaper Kazakhstanskaya Pravdadedicated to the 25 anniversary of the establishment of the service. Massimov told reporters about the results of the work of the National Security Committee recently, as well as about the activities of the special services at the moment. According to Karim Masimov, the built work of the National Security Committee allows effectively counteracting outside interference in the internal affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From the interview:

Thus, over the past 10 years, the KNB's anti-terror service has prevented about 100 violent terrorist acts. Neutralized aspirations to Kazakhstan by international terrorist organizations. Operations of unique complexity were carried out - liquidation of the structures of “Zhamaat of Mujahideen of Central Asia”, “Jund al-Khalifat”, “Hizb-ut-Tahrir” (terrorist groups, banned in the Russian Federation) and others. Dozens of terrorists and extremists were found and extradited together with partner intelligence agencies.

Karim Masimov and the Sapphire operation of counterintelligence of Kazakhstan, which was associated with the nuclear potential remaining on Kazakhstani territory after the collapse of the USSR, touched. In fact, Sapphire is an operation in which enriched uranium was exported from the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United States. The nuclear components were delivered to the Y-12 laboratory (Tennessee, USA). Edition The Washington Post in the middle of 90, they wrote that the Kazakh authorities received about 27 million dollars for it.

As the operation is commented by the head of the National Security Committee Masimov:

Property stories became a brilliant counterintelligence operation "Sapphire". It is not by chance that in the 2007 year, US President George W. Bush said: “In the history of the United States, there has not yet been a better partner in the field of nuclear non-proliferation than Kazakhstan.”

After that, Masimov said that the KNB "got rid of the totalitarian legacy of the KGB." From his interview:

Turning over the dark pages of the totalitarian past and moving away from repressive methods of work, the young secret service of Kazakhstan adopted the best traditions and experience of the strongest special services of the world.

Comments

[newcomer]

oh, you don’t need to water the USSR KGB. where did you come from?

[alekc75]

he thinks if he is from Kazakh, then he can do anything

[newcomer]

with a light hand, or the language of Masimov, took o and denigrated the entire glorious history of the state security organs. or maybe it's a stone in the direction of the FSB, because the FSB is the successors of the Soviet state security?

[anjey]

George W. Bush said: “There has never been a better partner in nuclear nonproliferation in US history than Kazakhstan”

what "achievements", still closing the Semipalatinsk test site, remember how much screeching there would have been to bend over the loot ...

[Semurg]

Quote: anjey

George W. Bush said: “There has never been a better partner in nuclear nonproliferation in US history than Kazakhstan”

what "achievements", still closing the Semipalatinsk test site, remember how much screeching there would have been to bend over the loot ...

Shovik at your side, arrange a nuclear test site and enjoyed the radiation.

[Will]

The United States has long been the “winners” in capturing strings of puppets controlled by colored pieces of paper.

[Uncle lee]

Sold uranium to the states and are happy! Operation Sapphire, understand!

[Masya masya]

Quote: Uncle Lee

Sold uranium to the states and are happy! Operation Sapphire, understand!

Proud !!!

[Gronsky]

Yeah ..... It would be better to keep silent about "Sapphire" then this one is beautiful.
Although in the absence of real successes and taking things out of the house is also a success.

[Semurg]

Quote: Uncle Lee

Sold uranium to the states and are happy! Operation Sapphire, understand!

Uranium is a product that is still being mined in Kazakhstan for sale, by the way Putin did not seem to stop the deal with the United States on weapons-grade plutonium either.

[Uncle lee]

Trade is trade. But not the special operation of the KNB!

[Semurg]

Well, uranium is all the more enriched as it is a very specific product, and I think the transactions for this product are under close control and under the supervision of state security bodies (not special operations). Moreover, the first such transaction in the history of the Republic of Kazakhstan and its state security bodies.

[Uncle lee]

I don’t care about these deals! What does it boast about?

[Loki_2]

Moreover, the first such transaction in the history of the Republic of Kazakhstan and its state security bodies.

And most likely the latter. Because the nuclear program was available only to the totalitarian Kazakh SSR. and alas, to the new democratic Kazakhstan - no :(

[Dry_T-50]

I wish good luck to the Kazakhs in the fight against terrorism

[Baloo]

After the death of Litvinenko, there were many versions in the Russian media. According to one of them, the former KGB colonel, an ethnic Kazakh, was the organizer of the sale of contraband polonium, which was mined-made on a small island in the Caspian Sea. Allegedly, the experts, by themselves British scientists, found that polonium was from there.
Personally, I doubt very much whether there was polonium in the Litvinenko case, and not poisoning with salts of heavy metals, such as cadmium.
If I had the opportunity, I would ask Masimov on polonium:
whether polonium was actually mined on the territory of Kazakhstan, it is true that Kazakhstan exported Polonium legally, or is it all paid tales of zhurnalyug.

[Babalaykin]

But I read that on the contrary, polonium was just democratic, and they poured on totalitarian KGB officers

[Baloo]

Quote: Babalaykin

But I read that on the contrary, polonium was just democratic, and they poured on totalitarian KGB officers

Most likely, polonium was after the meeting, because only Litvinenko was injured. And in general, the owner of the bar, where they met, when he began to bother everyone that they came and did not find polonium, died a violent death.
Litvinenko most likely was poisoned with some kind of neutrotropic poison, and polonium is so ...
As for the traces of polonium, this is from spy detectives. Counterintelligence in a country decided to track the spy, tagged the boots with radioisotopes, then ran around with a geiger counter and calculated the route. An old joke. And then, Litvinenko had an accomplice, who suddenly suddenly fell down and also, as it were, from polonium (there was a plot on Russian channels), only he didn’t part with his own and curls and was completely healthy.

[Babalaykin]

I also think he was poisoned. What is the point of spending money and messing with it when heaps of poisons for nothing. Perhaps Litvinenko was involved in some kind of business with nuclear materials and accidentally grabbed, or they specially raised a wave, then if memory serves me too, they all blamed on the bloody KGB). Now here is the ubiquitous Putin hackers by ear))).

[Baloo]

[Quote] [/ quote]
Of everything that was written in Russian newspapers and shown on Russian TV, the picture is as follows:
-I started to deceive the British, slipping info from the Internet as operational and they understood it
-Birch began to have financial problems and he cut back on Litvinenko’s content, he was upset and started to blackmail me with something
-Tried to meet with former colleagues to bargain about returning to Russia in exchange for a dossier on the Russian diaspora that had fled to save the naval forces ... acquired by back-breaking labor from the bloody regime in London
The time was chosen for a reason, on the eve of the trip of GDP on gas contracts to the geyropu.

[Aposlya]

Here is a photograph of a dying Litvinenko - he is all bald on his head, without eyebrows - these are, as it were, the consequences of radiation damage ... But why then does his chest hair grow quietly? Or radiation to them?

[Rostislav]

Show off praise from the mattresses ... comments are superfluous.

[Gray brother]

The achievement of history was the brilliant counterintelligence operation Sapphire.

The drunk drinks things and proudly talks about it. Is it a bottom?

[Mountain shooter]

Wangyu, after Nazarbayev’s natural departure, a time of fierce turbulence will come.

[Semurg]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

Wangyu, after Nazarbayev’s natural departure, a time of fierce turbulence will come.

Wanguu that the mountain shooter is a reincarnation of Wangi.

[Private61]

Well, if Bush said Kazakhstan is six, then that’s the way it is.

[Altona]

Turning over the dark pages of the totalitarian past and moving away from repressive methods of work, the young secret service of Kazakhstan adopted the best traditions and experience of the strongest special services of the world.
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How esthetically it is possible to build a phrase about the sale of the homeland.

[Dead duck]

got rid of the totalitarian legacy of the KGB

If he is so correct, then let him hand over to Russia the original Russian lands and cities that Kazakhstan inherited after the collapse of the USSR.

[anjey]

Quote: Deadush

got rid of the totalitarian legacy of the KGB

If he is so correct, then let him hand over to Russia the original Russian lands and cities that Kazakhstan inherited after the collapse of the USSR.

Tselinograd for example ....

[brr1]

So the Kazakhs are also threatening to chop off the whole borderland “native Kazakh”. Each dumbass with three education classes, on occasion, begins to talk about the great Kazakh cities of Omsk, Orenburg, Astrakhan, etc., one especially gifted even betrayed Kharkov as a Kazakh city, since it was originally "Kar kөp" (translated as "a lot of snow" )

[Dead duck]

Quote: brr1

issued that Kharkov is a Kazakh city

Well, if in Ukraine some consider the Krasnodar Territory and some parts of Russia to be their own, why not fantasize others ?!

[Bronevick]

I'll just leave it here.

[Alexey RA]

Miskuzi!
It’s good that it’s not a flugeheimen ...

[rotmistr60]

“In US history, there has not yet been a better partner in nuclear non-proliferation than Kazakhstan.”

Clearly, not every "partner" would voluntarily agree to sell enriched uranium to the United States. Probably one of the points of the deal was the assurance of not delivering a nuclear strike on Kazakhstan?

[Gray brother]

Quote: rotmistr60

one of the points of the deal was the assurance of not delivering a nuclear strike on Kazakhstan?

Kickbacks, in clauses of the contract, are never prescribed.

[Naughty]

All residents of Ust Kamenogorsk know about this secret operation. How a plane flew in and took several hundred kilograms of this uranium from UMP. Which stood in enameled buckets in a warehouse At a certain distance from each other so that there would be no chain reaction. The Americans were certainly horrified by what they saw, because I think they took it all for free In exchange for loyalty to then (however, now) nobody knows Kazakhstan

[anjey]

Quote: Semurg

Quote: anjey

Quote: Deadush

got rid of the totalitarian legacy of the KGB

If he is so correct, then let him hand over to Russia the original Russian lands and cities that Kazakhstan inherited after the collapse of the USSR.

Tselinograd for example ....

Shoviki come to Kazakhstan and take, you will be native Russian lands the size of a meter by two

but you Natsik however .... be grateful to Russia that out of shit.

[romb]

Okay. We will assume that we got out.
That's just the trouble, you, so remained in it.

[LastLap]

What did you get out of and where did you stay ??? Kazakh in Latin is a masterpiece !!! Che is not Sanskrit or for example Chinese characters ???? You can generally cuneiform. Again, the question is where from where and where to stay. Karl - Latin !!! D.B. Macedonian dreamed ????

[romb]

Your question, probably, would be better addressed not to me, but to a higher comrade, whom I turned to.
And do not worry about the writing of the Kazakhs. Kazakhs are a capable nation, the younger generation, especially. Let's figure it out ourselves.

[Loki_2]

Kazakhs, extremely capable and enterprising people. As they say:
Glory to Kazakhstan! Glory to the heroes!
Okay, they pushed stocks of totalitarian uranium for next to nothing. So also expose this as a great help. I thought only Ukrainian brothers are capable of this ...

[dad]

Maybe you do not know? But from 1929 to 1940 of the last century, the Kazakh alphabet sashenat in Latin

[brr1]

So this was an American operation. Here Kazakhstan in the role of the victim.

[anjey]

Quote: Semurg

Quote: anjey

George W. Bush said: “There has never been a better partner in nuclear nonproliferation in US history than Kazakhstan”

what "achievements", still closing the Semipalatinsk test site, remember how much screeching there would have been to bend over the loot ...

Shovik at your side, arrange a nuclear test site and enjoyed the radiation.

I served there, the village of Chagan heard, during underground tests, radiation was normal, and to survive in those days in the world with the hegemonic capitalism of the United States, the training ground was necessary, as now, it’s easy for you, you can go to any camp where the strength is and loot, but this way is not for Russia, and if you are not with us, it is against us, the girlfriend does not ...

[esaul1950]

{HA HA HA! What intelligence services were better than the KGB? ..and when?

[esaul1950]

Quote: romb

Well, you can understand them. It is difficult all the time to communicate online with a layer of hostile Russian users, and not begin to adopt a number of their wild qualities. You understand: with whom you will lead, from that you will gain.
Seriously: Kazakhs do not need foreign land. But we won’t give it to anyone.

it would be very interesting to know where the original land of the Kazakhs is located?

[Babalaykin]

In fairness, it is worth noting that these materials, although they cost significantly more than they bailed out for them (if at all bailed out in favor of the state), were in fact a suitcase without a handle for the country.

And yes, some commentators would read about the HEU-LEU agreement, here your bright heads of 500 tons of uranium (which would be enough for all the stations of Russia for many years) were poured for beads.

[Loki_2]

I have not seen anything laudatory articles on VO about this agreement.