 |   [SOURCE: A CONFIDENTIAL POLICE
REPORT] A week after speaking with Neimec, Illich calls Klein on May
17, 1994, to tell her that he's going to get 1 kg of plutonium. The next day,
Klein tells German undercover agent Boden that Illich wants to see $10,000 US
dollars in a Prague bank as show of good faith. Illich promises that a sample of
uranium is on the way. Within a week, German
and Czech cops meet to plan strategy in this case, which is developing into a
tangled web of traders. In late May, Niemec
takes some uranium to Landshut. The source of this uranium is not clear. It
might be the sample that Dr. Vagner got from Malish in Minsk. Laboratory tests
will later determine that the sample is low enriched uranium, indicating that
it's not the stuff from Eduard Baranov's stash in Obninsk, Russia. On May 26, one day after meeting between Illich, Boden
and four others at a hotel in Prague, Illich tells the German cop that there is
3.3 kilograms of HEU enriched to 87.8 percent somewhere in the city.
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