From: Grant F. Smith [gsmith@irmep.org] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 6:56 PM To: 'CELRP-PA@usace.army.mil' Cc: 'Jeffrey.S.Hawk2@usace.army.mil'; 'mthomas@tribweb.com' Subject: Formal Comment - Cleanup of the nuclear waste dump at Parks Township - comment deadline July 6 5PM The Parks Township nuclear waste dump question (and related issues such as healthcare and former worker compensation) will remain unanswered until it is properly addressed. The organization and individuals responsible for creating the problem—the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation— have not been placed in proper context or held accountable. NUMEC shares the heritage of a peculiar type of organization. Materials for Palestine, Foundry Associates, Service Airways, Mar-Tech, Heli Trading Company, Milchan Brothers, MILCO, and Telogy are all front companies that were formed to illegally ship military goods to Israel. The last four were involved in nuclear technology smuggling. NUMEC was created for the same purpose as Zalman Shapiro, former smuggler David Lowenthal, and other key organizers worked to gain access to AEC-regulated weapons- grade uranium to divert to Israel. The Army Corps of Engineers has confirmed receipt of my comprehensive study (Divert! NUMEC, Zalman Shapiro and the diversion of US weapons grade uranium into the Israeli nuclear weapons program) tracing NUMEC's origins, operations, and employee affidavits to the FBI that Zalman Shapiro stuffed canisters of U-235 into irradiator equipment shipped to Israel. We offer as many complimentary copies as you require. Once the core purpose of NUMEC, a suspiciously undercapitalized business established in highly inappropriate facilities, is grasped it becomes obvious that the former plant sites in Apollo and the Parks Township are not toxic pollution sites—they are crime scenes. If a bona fide investigation and timely prosecutions had ever taken place—a 1978 GAO report affirms such accountability was thwarted—much of the fallout could have been avoided. This includes the AEC pressuring an oil company to acquire NUMEC in 1967 in exchange for Hanford management contracts, and Babcock and Wilcox taking over [NUMEC] to maintain a flow of U.S. Navy contracts. These transactions would not have happened but for deep corruption within the AEC, which thwarted warranted investigations, even after traces of divert NUMEC uranium were picked up in Israel. In a perfect world, compensation for the NUMEC disaster would be paid by the very same Americans who improperly profited from it (Zalman Shapiro, David Lowenthal, Leonard Pepkowtiz, and Frederick Foerscher.) Under a just outcome, the cost of cleanup and health-related compensation would be borne by the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (the Israeli weapons-development front organization which had a joint venture, ISORAD, with NUMEC) and the Israeli government. US organizations on the periphery that provided political support and two directors to NUMEC, such as the Zionist Organization of America, would now defray the massive costs. As a final gesture, stolen U-235 (enough for many weapons), would be publicly returned to the US by the leader most responsible for its theft—Shimon Peres. What dangers lie beneath the soil in the Parks Township dump are unknowable, because every organ of the US government that dealt with the NUMEC question, the AEC, FBI, CIA, Justice Department, presidents from Johnson to Carter, the NRC, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and others utterly failed to resolve it. Victims have understandably directed their efforts against the deepest pockets, such as the Congress and companies left holding the NUMEC bag (ARCO and B&W Technologies). Meanwhile, a great deal of useful classified information generated by the CIA, FBI, NSA, National Archives Presidential Libraries and other entities remains classified. As we've already communicated, declassified files reveal a 1969 spill caused by Shapiro and Lowenthal's negligence, this information could help lower costs and improve safety, but only if it is fully declassified and transferred into the public domain. In summary, the former NUMEC properties are crime scenes. No act was too criminal, heinous or negligent for its owners to engage in to achieve their clandestine designs. This is abundantly clear to any who read "Divert!” or consult the key documents with an open mind. (see http://www.irmep.org/ila/numec ) Until there is a bona fide effort to release classified information about unprosecuted crimes and seek restitution from the true perpetrators through an open truth and reconciliation process, the US Army Corps of Engineers will become the latest patsy in a cruel atomic game of musical chairs when NUMEC's discordant tune again grinds to a halt. Cc: US Attorney - Pittsburgh Grant F. Smith | Director | Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Inc. Tel: 202.342.7325 | Fax: 202.318.8009 | gsmith@irmep.org |http://www.IRmep.org To research and improve US-Middle East policy formulation.