When I read this article I was thinking of a post that I wrote some months ago.

This article restart the question: Why field agents are essential in information gathering? There was a shift in the nineties to cut off field agents and put efforts of information gathering on airwaves or wires taping. As I said, it’s probably a big mistake decry by many CIA agents. Hopefully the CIA had infiltrated the ground in 1990. They had been able to get prime information on the network; they used it and put down Khan’s network around the world. Some expert critic the delay of the intervention. I’m not in position to put an opinion on that fact but my point is that without well trained field agents I don’t think that the modus operandi of the network was ever discovered. Don’t forget that other such networks can exists or can emerge from the ashes of Khan’s network. There is probably money to do and power to get.

This rise a question: how can cost a nuclear bomb? This question is interesting when you consider some things. First, it’s a very specific type of traffic with quite few clients. The risk is greater than narco-traffic and narco-traffickers can do billions of dollars. Then how can cost a nuclear bomb?

Rogue states can afford it. Big criminal groups can probably too. What’s the real danger of such a situation? I don’t think that anybody know the answers to such questions. We can only guess the threat by analyzing the short know history of it.