The Spy Who Sold Nuclear Secrets to Iran | Cargo of Doom
5/12/202638 min
With A.Q. Khan now fully rogue and his network working to fast-track Libya’s nuclear weapons program, the CIA and MI6 need to find a way to shut his network down permanently.
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[suspenseful music] February two thousand and three, Natanz, Iran. UN weapons inspector Olli Heinonen watches through the window as his car rumbles down a remote dirt road towards a cluster of concrete buildings. He and his team work for the International Atomic Energy Agency, the watchdog charged with containing the spread of nuclear weapons. They're here following a tip-off that this facility is enriching uranium as part of Iran's secret weapons program. Heinonen is keeping an open mind. The tip came from a group opposed to Iran's theocratic regime. It has every incentive to exaggerate its claims. It might even have been fed information by foreign intelligence agencies who also want change in Iran. But as they get closer, he sees anti-aircraft missile batteries guarding the site, and that sets alarm bells ringing. [door opening and closing] An Iranian guide leads them inside, down a corridor lined with photographs and diagrams for advanced centrifuges.