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The CIA Officer Who Broke A.Q. Khan's Nuclear Network
Original: An Ophthalmologist, a Spy Psychiatrist, and the CIA Officer Who Broke A.Q. Khan
A new account revisits how the CIA unraveled the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network, spotlighting an ophthalmologist, a psychiatrist working in intelligence, and the agency officer credited with the breakthrough. The story retells one of the most consequential counterproliferation operations of recent decades, in which Pakistani scientist Khan's clandestine sales of nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea were exposed.
Why now: A detailed retelling of the intelligence operation that dismantled the world's most notorious nuclear smuggling network is drawing renewed attention.
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- An Ophthalmologist, a Spy Psychiatrist, and the CIA Officer Who Broke A.Q. Khan · The Times of Israel
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