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FBI file on United Nuclear, release 3

FBI via The Black Vault · 2023-11 · 70 pages · text from the file's own layer

This FBI FOIA release, dated November 22, 2023 and obtained by John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault, is the second and final release on United Nuclear Scientific Supplies, LLC. The FBI reviewed 357 pages and released 56. The records include a 2012 Detroit interview at the company's Michigan warehouse about orders for nitric acid and potassium perchlorate, a 2006 Albuquerque WMD case over a suspicious call, grand jury subpoenas, and a 2008 to 2009 New York and Baltimore inquiry into an attempted purchase of Polonium-210.

  • p. 3 …These criminal history records are not the same as material in an investigative “FBI file.” An…
  • p. 4 …agency; (b)(6) personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute…
  • p. 15 …b3 b6 b7C b3 b6 b7C investigation on 11/28/2007 at Albuquerque, New Mexico; File…
  • p. 25 …It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency;
  • p. 31 …So 2 007 at Albuquerque, New Mexico b3 b6 b7C File # 279B-AQ-60281-GJ Date…
  • p. 55 …001 OK 004/004 00:01:14 ***** UF-8Q00 v2 ******************* -Squad CT-22 -FBI-NYO _ ***** - ********* Approved…
  • p. 57 …b6 b7C Go I 2 ■ investigation on 10/22/2008 at New York, New York File…
  • p. 63 …It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency;
UNCLASSIFIED
To: Baltimore From: New York
Re: 279B-NY-300743-GJ, 10/24/2008
the New York Office will transfer the captioned investigation to
Baltimore in a future communication if warranted.
In compliance with the Federal Rules of Criminal
Procedure,_____________________________________________________________
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| have been added to the New York Office 6(e) List with
the Southern District of New York due to the investigative need
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~~l obtained via Federal Grand Jury Subpoena in regards to
New York will add as
deemed necessary by WMDOU and Baltimore.
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Details: On 08/25/2008, New York Office
of an attempt to purchase a Polonium-210
Squad CT-22 was advised
solution from United
Nuclear Scientific Supplies (UNSS) as outlined in the above
referenced serial. In that serial, also on 08/25/2008,1
IUNSS returned a ca11_ from a F lT.NU. I
Ta New York registered
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_______(LNU) claimed that he wanted to purchase c
concentrated solution of Polonium-210. WhenI I asked
he wanted the Polonium
why
replied that it was for a friend who
needed it to detect counterfeit United States currency. _______|
explained that one needed a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
license to posses this material. Tasked if there was "any
way around the NRC reguirements. " 1 __ said that he did not
know of any way around the NRC. _____ then asked if he could
purchase any other Polonium-210 sources from UNSS and reduce them
to a concentrated solution. I Itold| |that would not be
possible. then terminated the call.
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expressed a belief that such a concentrated
solution of Polonium-210 would not be useful for counterfeit
currency detection, but would make a very effective poison.
While the call was received within the Albuquerque
Division, it was determined that the New York Office would open
the investigation as the cellular telephone used to make the
purchase was a New York registered area code.
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UNCLASSIFIED
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