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FBI file on United Nuclear, release 2

FBI via The Black Vault · 2023-03 · 131 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is an FBI Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts release to John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault, dated March 29, 2023, covering United Nuclear Scientific Supplies. It was the first interim release: of 517 pages reviewed, 119 were released. The records come from the FBI Albuquerque JTTF and describe a 2006 case. An unidentified caller asked the company for chemicals that could serve as Sarin precursors, then turned up in person at the business. The file also contains grand jury subpoenas and interview notes.

Title: UNSUB (S);
SUSPICIOUS CALL TO
UNITED NUCLEAR SCIENTIFIC SUPPLIES
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO;
MONDAY, 07/17/2006;
DT-WMD
Synopsis: Two out-of-state companies and eight in-state
companies were identified as the best possibilities for
contacts about chemical purchases by the UNSUB of the
captioned case.
Full Investigation Initiated: 08/02/2006
Administrative: This EC covers the lead set to IA
in 279B-AQ-60281, lead number 1.
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Enclosure(s): Excel spreadsheet of chemical suppliers of six
sarin precursor chemicals and possible suppliers of those
chemicals in New Mexico.
Details: In an attempt to identify chemical suppliers who
might have been contacted by the captioned UNSUB, liaison was
conducted with logical state agencies and research was
conducted in FBI and open sources. However, no single
chemical supplier in New Mexico stood out as an obvious seller
from which the UNSUB could have attempted to acquire the sarin
precursor chemicals triethyl phosphite, triisopropyl
phosphite, sodium fluoride, aluminum chloride, methyl
chloride, and isopropyl alcohol.
Numerous out-of-country businesses claimed to have
these chemicals for sale, including businesses based in China,
Germany, Belgium, Austria, India and the UK. Of the US

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