BURMESE CIVILIAN OFFERS TO SELL PURPORTED URANIUM

Description: 

"...um-238. The individual had initially contacted the USDAO eight days prior with the offer. The individual provided a small bottle half-filled with metallic powder and a photocopied certificate of testing from a Chinese university dated 1992 as verification of the radioactive nature of the powder. During XXXXXXXXXXXX interview, the individual claimed to be able to provide up to 2000 kg of uranium-bearing rock from a location in Kayah State XXXXXXXXXXXX , and further stated if the U.S. was not interested in purchasing the uranium, he and his associates would try to sell it to other countries, beginning with Thailand..."

Source/publisher: 

US Embassy, Rangoon, via Wikileaks

Date of Publication: 

2008-09-23

Date of entry: 

2010-12-24

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English

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