Cable: Spain to Sec. Clinton about nuke contamination (Palomares)

[rainbow4321]

Well, this can't be good...so were the study results ever released? And, yeah, I imagine the Spanish residents in the area would be a little upset with us.


http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/12/09STATE129362.html

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PALOMARES Nuclear Site
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¶12. (C) Moratinos asked the Secretary for a real
response(whatever you can do) to be helpful in terms of
Spanish public opinion, which he feared could turn against
the U.S. if news of the results of a recent study of the
site's nuclear contamination were to spread. The Secretary
noted that she remembered the accident when it happened but
made no commitment.

[Poll_Blind]

1. Holy crap, this is about a Broken Arrow event back in '66!

1966 Palomares B-52 crash

:scared:

That's a damned good question, Rainbow4321!

PB

[rainbow4321]

2. Yeah..a question that Sec Clinton didn't want to commit to answering

to....

Who did the study and has it already been thru a shredder???? Obviously, the Spanish officials know about it and know the results so you know we do, too.

[Poll_Blind]

3. Just as an FYI I did a Google search against *.mil sites and I think the latest I came up with was..

...from 2002 or something like that. There might have been a later one but it (or maybe it was the one from 2002) seemed to be deliberately obfuscated. I'm betting there's one from this year, last year- very recent. I have no idea who would have done this, but if we think about the wording, it might have been done by a non-governmental group, like a citizens watchdog group or a university. If it was a military survey, I'm not sure why they'd worry so much about it getting out

Search I did in google was something like:
site:*.mil Palomares contamination report

But obviously it's a very rough search- just wanted to see what would turn up on a once-over. If you view with Google's QuickView, Google loads the document, not you.

PB