Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen  ( spook)
Born	1954
Nationality	US
Alma mater	West Point
Religion	Catholic
Member of	Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Interests	nuclear terrorism
CIA spook who has specialized in "nuclear terrorism". As a "test" he wanted to smuggle a "terrorist" nuclear warhead into the United States  Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence In office 2005 - 2009 Employer US/Department/Energy  CIA/European Division/Chief In office 2004 - 2005  Chief of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Department Dates unknown Employer “CIA/Counterterrorism Center” early 2000s?  CIA/European Division/Oslo Station/Chief In office 1998 - 2000  CIA/European Division/Zurich Station/Chief In office 1994 - 1996  CIA/Central Eurasia Division/Moscow Station/Chief In office 1994 Preceded by Rolf Mowatt-Larssen Succeeded by Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Michael Sulick after expulsion of James M. Morris

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen is a retired CIA spook who has specialized in "nuclear terrorism". As a "test" he planned to smuggle a "terrorist" nuclear warhead into the United States.

Background

Born a Lutheran of Norwegian heritage, he converted to Catholicism in Amman, Jordan, in 2013.

Education

He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point. Prior to his career in the CIA, Mowatt-Larssen was an officer in the U.S. Army.

Career

He worked for 23 years as a CIA intelligence officer in various domestic and international posts, to include Chief of Station in several countries, Chief of the Europe Division in the Directorate of Operations, Chief of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Department, Counterterrorist Center, and Deputy Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Military Support.

Inside the office of the Moscow Station, Mowatt-Larssen was nicknamed the "prince of darkness," not in a good way.

Activities

In response to Russian FSB Lt. Gen. Valentin Klimenko's urgent question about why U.S. intelligence officers had met with rebels opposing Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Mowatt-Larssen did not hesitate or apologize, but rather replied, "The sole purpose of the CIA's contact with the armed opposition is to gather information to keep Washington apprised of developments."

In February 1992, he was being sent on the road to set up a CIA station in a Eurasian nation created from one of the old Soviet republics.

Nuclear terrorism

Later in his career. Mowatt-Larssen has specialized in "nuclear terrorism", a subject that leaves open false flag possibilities, something Mowatt-Larssen seems oblivious to.

A nuclear plot would have a tiny foot print -- probably not larger than Muhammed Atta's 9/11 attack -- and once launched, such a plot would be very hard to find and neutralize before it reached fruition."

Seemingly not being aware of Al Qaeda's close ties to Western intelligence agencies, he concluded that "After years spent gleaning Al Qaeda's intent and capabilities from captured computer hard drives, documents from Afghanistan, and other sources, he now believes Al Qaeda will stop at nothing to get the bomb or the materials to make one."

Mowatt-Larssen suggested an "Armageddon Test", which he said was a test: "'If an intelligence officer and his team can go out there and collect enough material themselves to make a bomb, then we know we've got a problem, don't we?' he says. "So let's go find out whether that's possible." He proposed more than just sending a team of operatives to acquire nuclear fuel on the black market: He wanted them to smuggle the material back into the US to show that terrorists could do this."

Together with Robert Richer, by then co-founder of Total Intelligence Solutions (TIS), the intelligence firm owned by the same group as Blackwater, Mowatt-Larssen planned to run a private sector version of the Armageddon Test:

The teams need to look and act just like terrorist cells, or groups a terrorist network such as al Qaeda would hire to locate and buy enriched uranium. Rolf [Mowatt-Larssen] is feeling, more and more, that Rob Richer is the most natural person to head this sort of operation. And it's not just because Rolf feels that CIA is currently incapable of staging such a mission.... No, it's because the teams would actually be running a test - a real, incorruptible test--on both the U.S. government and the world at large.... At the center of it all would be a kind of hard, irrefutable truth that the U.S. government and its minions can't deny or table or spin or bury: the fact that it can be done - that uranium can be bought in sufficient quantity to build a bomb and brought into the United States - and now it has been done.

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