In 2010, the Obama administration granted approval to Russia’s atomic agency Rosatom to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One. The deal was controversial because the Canadian mining company at the time controlled 20 percent of all uranium mining capacity in the United States.

Given the national security implications, the deal required approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which included the State Department, then headed by Hillary Clinton.

Russia had well announced its plans to corner

How President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aided Russia’s quest for global nuclear dominance

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the global uranium market as a way to exert political control over other countries. As early as 2006 Russia announced it would spend $10 billion to grow Russia’s global uranium production capacity by 600 percent.

Uranium is a key component for nuclear weapons as well as nuclear energy. A July 2011 report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration revealed that American nuclear power plants relied on imports for 92 percent of their uranium

supply. Twenty-three percent was imported from Russia.

So why did President Barack Obama and the State Department headed by Hillary Clinton approve the deal that weakened America’s security and energy independence?

The Epoch Times, using public sources, including the book “Clinton Cash” by Peter Schweizer, has mapped out the connections and events related to the Uranium One acquisition by Russia.

It shows that while the State Department under Hillary Clinton was considering approving the deal, as part of the CFIUS approval process, Russia and key stakeholders in the deal paid millions to the Clinton Foundation.

The FBI at the time was aware that the Russian authorities had staged a large-scale operation to blackmail and extort U.S. companies connected to uranium production and transportation.

The agency also had a well-placed source

working in the uranium industry that provided extensive evidence of bribery and corruption.

However, the investigation was killed in 2015 by FBI Director James Comey, and the key informant was given a gag order and prevented from talking to Congress by Obama’s attorney general, Loretta Lynch.

That gag order was lifted by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last year, and three congressional committees interviewed FBI informant William Campbell on Feb. 7.

NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEVKazakhstan president

IAN TELFERChairman, Uranium One

VLADIMIR PUTINRussian president

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BILL CLINTONFormer president

BARACK OBAMAPresident

HILLARY CLINTONSecretary of state

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MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE

Four members of Congress sent a letter in October 2010 calling on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to block the sale of Uranium One to the Russian government over security concerns.

The CFIUS had to evaluate whether to approve the Uranium One deal, as national security concerns were at play.

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote in a letter in March 2011, in response to a letter from a congressman, that Rosatom could only export U.S. uranium with a license, which the company did not hold at the time.

The State Department intervened in Kazakhstan on behalf of Urani-um One after the head of Kazatom-prom, Moukhtar Dzhakishev, was arrested in 2009 for illegally selling uranium rights to foreign countries, including Canada’s UrAsia.

Giustra goes from being a small player in the uranium mining industry to becoming a major player after signing a lucrative deal in Kazakhstan with the help of Bill Clinton.

After leaving office in 1999, Bill Clinton amassed $189 mil-lion in personal wealth through often controversial consulting work and lucrative speeches.

The Clinton Foundation has received over $2 billion since its inception.

Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra traveled to Kazakhstan to meet Nazarbayev on Sept. 6, 2005.

Clinton praised Nazarbayev and endorsed him—despite known serious human rights and election abuses—to head the interna-tional security organization Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

STATE DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

RAW URANIUM EXCHANGE

EUROPEAN MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD CANCELED

123 AGREEMENT

START TREATY

A U.S.–Russia nuclear weapons proliferation program allowed Russia to send enriched fuel from decommissioned nuclear warheads, in exchange for raw uranium from the United States.

In 2009, President Barack Obama conceded to Russia by ending a Bush-era plan to build a missile defense system in Europe.

Clinton negotiated an agreement with Russia on civilian nuclear energy, making it easier for U.S. and Russian firms to form joint ventures. The Bush administration originally negotiated the 123 Agreement but ended it after Russia invaded Georgia in 2008.

As part of the Russia reset, President Barack Obama announced the new START treaty with Russia, alongside Hillary Clinton, on March 26, 2010, to reduce nuclear stockpiles.

In 2009, the FBI began investigating Russian efforts to extend influence over the atomic energy business in the United States using bribery and extortion.

The investigation into the Russian bribery and extortion campaign started by Mueller in 2009 was ended under Comey in 2015.

Campbell was an undercover informant working for the FBI investigating corruption in the U.S. and Russian nuclear industries.

Lynch prevented a key FBI informant from testifying to Congress about his knowledge of corruption in the Russian and U.S. uranium industries.

In December 2017, Sessions ordered DOJ prosecutors to interview FBI agents about the evidence they found connected to Uranium One and uranium transportation. Sessions also lifted a gag order on Campbell.

Lambert was indicted on Jan. 12 on eleven counts for his alleged role in the bribery of a Russian official connected to Rosatom.

ROBERT MUELLERFBI director (2001–2013)

JAMES COMEYFBI director (2013–2017)

WILLIAM CAMPBELLFBI informant

LORETTA LYNCHAttorney general (2015–2017)

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MARK LAMBERTFormer co-president of a nuclear materials transportation company

JEFF SESSIONSAttorney general (2017–)

FRANK GIUSTRAFounder, UrAsia Energy Ltd.

Russia’s Plan for Global Uranium DominationRussia approved a plan in 2006 to spend $10 billion to grow its annual uranium pro-duction by 600 percent. The program was led by Russian state-owned atomic energy corporation Rosatom and the Natural Re-sources Ministry.

Leaked State Department cables sent in 2009 reveal that the State Department was aware that Russia was planning to use nuclear energy to put pressure on Eastern Europe, and that the Russian military intel-ligence agency, GRU, was involved in a plan to “renuclearize Russia.”

Iran’s Nuclear Program

North Korea’s Nuclear Program

Rosatom built and managed Iran’s Bushara nuclear plant, trained Iran’s nuclear scientists, and supplied the facility with enriched-uranium rods. In 2010, as the Uranium One deal moved forward, four members of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs wrote in a joint letter: “We remain concerned that Iran could receive uranium supplies through direct or secondary proliferation.”

William Campbell, an FBI source for decades, recently testified that Russian nuclear cooperation with Iran was ongoing, that Russian officials obtained restricted compliance reports on Iranian nuclear inspections, and that the FBI briefed President Barack Obama on his undercover findings.

Russia has murky ties to North Korea’s nuclear programs. In 2006, Russia was criticized for offering technology to protect North Korea’s nuclear stockpiles and to conceal its weapons programs from the world. In 2007, as part of Russia’s plan to expand its global uranium market, North Korea allegedly offered to provide Russia with all its uranium reserves in exchange for diplomatic backing. Rosatom’s heavy role in Iran’s nuclear program also raises concerns since Iran and North Korea cooperate on nuclear weapons technology.

Bill Clinton traveled to Moscow in June 2010 to meet with Vladimir Putin. The meeting took place just months before the Obama administration approved the Uranium One deal.

On June 29, the same day as meeting Putin, Clinton was paid $500,000 by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to Putin, for a 90-minute speech.

THE MOSCOW MEETING

On March 6, 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a symbolic button that read “reset,” to mark a new era of U.S.-Russia relations.

The Russia reset and subsequent change in U.S. policy toward Russia paved the way for the approval of the Uranium One acquisition by Russia.

THE RUSSIA RESET

CFIUSThe Russian government hired American lobbying firm APCO Worldwide because it was in a position to influence Hillary Clinton, in part through dona-tions to the Clinton Global Initiative, former FBI informant William Campbell told Congress on Feb. 7, according to The Hill.

Telfer made multiple donations to the Clinton Foundation between 2009 and 2012 through a Canadian entity he controlled, the Fern-wood Foundation.

Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment firm with ties to Vladimir Putin, paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a 90-minute speech he gave in Moscow on June 29, 2010.

Within 48-hours of Bill Clinton’s endorsement of Kazakhstan Presi-dent Nazarbayev, UrAsia signed a memorandum of understanding with state-owned Kazatomprom for $450 million to become partners in three uranium mines.

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Soon after the merger, Uranium One began buying mining rights in the United States.

JUNE 2009

ARMZ Uranium Holding Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Rosatom, acquired a 17 percent stake in Uranium One.

JUNE 2010

Rosatom announced its intention to acquire a 51 percent majority stake in Uranium One.

OCTOBER 2010

CFIUS approved Rosatom, through its wholly owned subsidiary ARMZ, taking a controlling majority stake in Uranium One.

JANUARY 2013

Rosatom acquired the remaining Uranium One stakes and gained 100 percent control. It then took the company private.

Uranium mined by Uranium One was exported to Canada with the approval of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under Obama. Some of the uranium was then transported to Europe. It is unclear where it went afterward.

URANIUM LEAVES THE UNITED STATESMining company Uranium One

Inc. acquired UrAsia Energy Ltd. to continue as a combined company under the name Ura-nium One Inc. headquartered in Canada.

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Gain significant control of global uranium market.

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Use control of energy to create “zones of pressure” against Eastern Europe.

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“Renuclearize” Russia, with help from the GRU, to reclaim Russia’s status as a world power.

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Use bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and money laundering to grow Russia’s nuclear energy influence in the United States.

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Use sleeper agents to “search and develop ties in policy-making circles in U.S.”

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Despite assurances made by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 2010 that “no uranium produced” by Uranium One “may be exported,” numerous exports took place.

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