CIA, Iranians at Same Nuke Conference: Here’s Attendees List

Scooter Libby Outed Unit That Spied on Iran at Nuke Conference

Scooter Libby is on trial for perjuring himself in regard to his outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame and thus her front company Brewster Jennings. Jean C. Edwards is a former CIA agent who recently listed Valerie Plame’s famous CIA front company Brewster Jennings Associates as her own former employer. Edwards attended at least three conferences with nuclear engineers and scientists from Iran, Pakistan, and other prospective and actual nuclear nations, apparently to spy on them. The conferences were held in Trieste, Italy, in 1991, 1992, and 1995 while Edwards worked for the CIA. In the lists of attendees below, Edwards is listed as Jean C. Edwards from Jamaica.

Edwards has worked as an engineer but now works as a lawyer. Her resumes — before they were cleaned up — are at http://cryptome.org/cia-edwards.htm .

RESUME COPY

The following is copied directly from the original resume.

Prior Professional Experience
Dickinson Wright PLLC, Member, 2003-2005
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Of Counsel, 2001-2003
Pepper Hamilton, Associate, 2000-2001
Sughrue Mion Zinn Macpeak & Seas, Associate,1996-2000
Central Intelligence Agency, Case Officer, 1989-1995
Congressional Research Service, Intern, 1995-1996
Elexis Corporation, Manufacturing Manager, 1985
Brewster-Jenning [sic] and Associates, Consultant, 1985-1989
Cordis Corporation, Project Engineer, 1981-1984; Regulatory Affairs Coordinator, 1979-1981

Education
1995: J.D., University of Miami, Cum Laude
1979: B.S., University of Miami, Major: Mechanical Engineering
1977: B.S., Emporia State University [Kansas], Major: Physics
1977: B.A., Emporia State University, Major: French with Honors

Other Languages
French
Spanish

ICTP CONFERENCES

The conferences were at the Abdus Salam International center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in Trieste, Italy. Abdus Salam was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from Pakistan. He was at one time the director of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). The PAEC was the focus of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb research and design after a government decision in 1972 to build the bomb. Salam didn’t participate in building the bomb. That effort was led by Dr. A.Q. Khan, the "father" of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb.

There is another European connection. It was while working in the Netherlands that Khan acquired the information he needed to build a centrifuge enrichment plant for uranium. Khan allegedly has been responsible for distributing nuclear weapons technology to North Korea and to Muslim nations including Iran, supposedly on his own for his own financial enrichment rather than as a government effort. The Pakisistan government has him under house arrrest but unavailable for questioning.

Supposedly, Khan has admitted to providing Iran, Libya, and North Korea with technical assistance and high-speed centrifuges for nuclear enrichment. Also, reportedly Khan and his associates visited Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Chad, Mali, Nigeria, Niger (site of the famous fact-finding mission by Plame’s husband, Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, which resulted in Lewis Libby’s "outing" of Plame), and Sudan. Some of these countries sent representatives to the conferences Edwards attended in Trieste.

According to news reports, Brewster Jennings and Valerie Plame investigated the A.Q. Khan network of nukes for sale.

ABOUT THE CENTER WHERE THE CONFERENCES OCCURRED

Founded in 1964, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) operates under the aegis of two United Nations Agencies, UNESCO and IAEA, and is "regularised" by a seat agreement with the government of Italy. Its goals are to:

* Foster the growth of advanced studies and research in physics and mathematics, especially among researchers from developing countries;
* Provide an international forum for the exchange of information and ideas among scientists from the North and South;
* Maintain excellent research facilities for visitors, associates and fellows, principally from developing countries, who participate in the center’s research and training activities. Edwards, from the US, listed her developing country of origin as Jamaica, while she was employed by the American CIA.

Throughout its history, ICTP has welcomed some of the world’s foremost physicists to its campus. J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan (first U.S. atomic bomb) Project in the United States during World War II, was an influential voice in the creation of the center and the first chairperson of ICTP’s Scientific Council. Nobel Laureates Werner Heisenberg, who formulated the uncertainty principle, and Paul A.M. Dirac, who predicted the existence of antimatter, were frequent visitors to the center. In all, some eighty Nobel Laureates have lectured at the center as well as many other prestigious scientists in fields ranging from elementary particles to solid-state physics to atmospheric sciences to mathematics to astrophysics.

SMR Number 842 (1995): CONFERENCE ON ULTRAFAST TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS IN OPTICAL FIBRES

SMR Number 612 (1992): THIRD TRAINING COLLEGE ON PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY OF LASERS AND OPTICAL FIBRES

SMR Number 540 (1991): SECOND TRAINING COLLEGE ON PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY IN LASERS AND OPTICAL FIBRES

SMR Number: 540

SECOND TRAINING COLLEGE ON PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY IN LASERS AND OPTICAL FIBRES (REPOSITORY FOR LECTURE NOTES FROM THE SCANNED HISTORICAL ARCHIVE)

21 January - 15 February 1991

Final List of Participants:

Total number of visitors for this activity: 92
Directors
DENARDO Gallieno Italy denardo@ictp.trieste.it
GUEKOS George Greece guekos@iqe.ethz.ch
MATERA Manlio Italy
TOSCO Federico Italy
Lecturers
ARECCHI Tito F. Italy arecchi@ino.it
ARIMONDO Ennio Italy arimondo@mail.df.unipi.it
BAETS R. Belgium
BURKHARD H. Germany
CIOFINI Marco Italy
CONSORTINI Anna Italy anna.consortini@unifi.it
DAINTY Christopher United Kingdom c.dainty@ic.ac.uk
DELVO Pierin Italy
EVANGELIDES Steven United States of America
MAZZINGHI Piero Italy
MELCHIOR Hans Switzerland melchior@iqe ethz ch
MEUCCI Riccardo Italy ric@ino.it
MOGENSEN Gregers Denmark
NEYER A. Germany
NIKOLAUS Bernd Germany
PANTANI Luca Italy
PELLAUX Jean-Paul Switzerland
RIZZI Maria Luciana Italy
SALIMBENI Renzo Italy salimbeni@mailbox.ieq.fi.cnr.it
SAPIA A. Italy
SELVARAJAN Ananthvijaya India
SIGRIST Markus Switzerland sigrist@iqe.phys.ethz.ch
SONA Alberto Italy 0461laur@sl.cise.it
SPANO Paolo Italy
TIZIANI Hans Germany
UBOLDI E. Italy
WILKINSON J. United Kingdom
Consultants
SINGH Jasbir Atma Malaysia
Tutors
MATTIUSSI Gianni Italy
Participants
AHMAD Irshad Pakistan
AL-HAWAT Sharif Hassan Syrian Arab Republic
AREGA Mesfin Ethiopia
BACALZO Fe Alma Tanjuan Philippines
BAKASOVA Kushneruck Natalia Vladimirovn Russian Federation
BAKASSOV Aiaz Asanbekovich Russian Federation
BAL Bijay Bhushan India
BANSI Lal India bansi@iitk.ernet.in
BARANCIRA Thaddee Burundi
BELLEZA ZAMORA Eduardo Peru
BERTA Martin Slovak Republic fyzibert@savba.savba.sk
BRAUN Motter Luci Fortunata Brazil
BROGGI Francesco Italy
BUAH-BASSUAH Paul Kingsley Ghana lafoc@ghana.com,buahbars@hotmail.com
CHATTOPADHYAYA Udit India
CHIRAN (IORDACHESCU) Sanda Romania
DABROWSKI Ludwik Italy
DANAILOV Miltcho Bojanov Bulgaria danailovm@elettra.trieste.it
DEB Sukhendu India

EDWARDS Jean C. Jamaica

FALLAHI Mohammad Taghi Islamic Republic of Iran

FARAMAWY Fahmy Kassem Egypt
GASMI Taieb Algeria gasmit@madrid.slu.edu
GHOLAP Ashok Vasudeo India gholapav@yahoo.com
HOANG Ngoc Cam Viet Nam hoang@sci.lpi.msk.su

HOSSEINI TEHRANI Atoussa Islamic Republic of Iran

IBRAHIM Samir Atwa Egypt
KALINOWSKI Hypolito Jose Brazil hjkalin@cpgei.cefetpr.br
KAREMERA Claver Marembo Rwanda kmarembo@yahoo.fr
KAZADI Kabamba Mwenda Democratic Republic of the Congo
LIN Qiang People’s Republic of China qlin@zju.edu.cn
LIU Yu-Pu People’s Republic of China
LLUESMA Eliseo Gallego Argentina
MAHMOOD Shahid Pakistan shahid@physics.khi.sdnpk.undp.org

MAHMOODILARI Mohammad J. Islamic Republic of Iran

MASUKIDI Lele-Sadi Democratic Republic of the Congo
MOHAMED Kumankattil Ahamed India
MOUKDAD Shokri Syrian Arab Republic
MUNYEME Geoffrey Zambia gmunyeme@natsci.unza.zm
PIRACHA Naveed Khaliq Pakistan
PURWOHARDJONO Subarkah Indonesia
RAHIMULLAH Khan India
RAICS Peter Hungary
RIZVI S. Aftab Ahsan Pakistan
SARDAR Mohammad Ayub Pakistan
SHAN Ying People’s Republic of China
SHEIKH Tariq Maqbool Pakistan
SHEN Aidong People’s Republic of China
SINGH Mukesh Pratap India msingh@physics.iitd.ernet.in
SOUZA Eunezio Antonio Brazil
SUBHASH Narayanan India subhashn@vsnl.com

TAVASSOLI Mohammad Taghi Islamic Republic of Iran tavasoli@iasbs.ac.ir

VU Van Luc Viet Nam
WANG Zhong People’s Republic of China
WIAFE-AKENTEN John Ghana ustlib@ust.gn.apc.org
YANG Guoguang People’s Republic of China
ZHOU Jianying People’s Republic of China
ZHOU Yueliang People’s Republic of China