Richard Barlow
Events (21)
- After January 20, 1981: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Marginalized in New Administration 1981-01-20
- August 4, 1989: Analyst of Pakistan’s Nuclear Program Alleged to Be ‘Security Risk’ and Fired from Pentagon 1989-08-04
- March 17, 1993: Senator Asks Pentagon to Reopen Inquiry into Analyst 1993-03-17
- January 1989 and After: Analyst of Pakistan’s Nuclear Program Joins Pentagon, Finds Program Is Continuing with US Support
- May 1990: Pentagon Analyst Completely Cleared of Wrongdoing, but Does Not Get All Security Clearances Back
- May 1990: US Embassies Underestimate Risk of Nuclear War Due to Suppressed Intelligence
- (August 1999): Wolfowitz Reportedly First Learns of Controversy over Fired Pakistan Nuclear Analyst
- August-September 1989: US Agrees to Sell Pakistan 60 More F-16s, Despite Nuclear Weapons Program
- Before September 1993: Inspectors General Clear Nuclear Analyst of All Charges, but Report Is Rewritten
- 1981-1982: State Department Intern Warns of Pakistan’s Nuclear Program, but Is Ignored and Loses Job
- 1983-7: US Sells Forty F-16 Fighters to Pakistan, Possibly Reconfigured to Carry Nuclear Weapons
- 1985-1988: CIA Finds ‘Tons’ of Material for Nuclear Weapons Is Going to Pakistan
- 1986: CIA Analyst Finds State Department Officials Are Approving Export of US Equipment for Pakistan Nuclear Program
- 1986: CIA Analyst Realizes State Department Is Protecting Pakistani Nuclear Proliferators by Not Sharing Intelligence
- Before July 1987: ’High-Ranking US Officials’ Tip Off Pakistan about US Arrests over Nuclear Weapons Program
- July 1987 or Shortly After: Stormy Hearing Exposes Pakistan’s Nuclear Program to Congress
- August 1987-1988: Analyst of Pakistan’s Nuclear Program Forced Out of CIA after Telling Truth to Congress
- 1999-2001: Clinton Awards Victimized Former Analyst $1 Million in Compensation, but He Never Receives It
- After November 2006: Victimized Analyst Again Asks for Compensation
- Late 1980s: ’Everybody in Congress’ Knows Pakistan Has Nuclear Weapons
- Mid-1989: Pentagon Analyst Pressured to Change Conclusions about Pakistan’s Nuclear Program, He Refuses, but Report Is Amended Behind his Back