TIMELINE OF NUCLEAR TERROR

1975

The Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) is established. Col. Lunev- his most spectacular claim concerned the smuggling into CONUS of nuclear devices known as RA-115s. He claimed they included a submersible version and were manufactured in Soviet defense factories in the 1970s. This is the same time NEST was established.

1979
In a leaked CIA document it is revealed that the CIA thought Chechnya was a good place to run a covert operation to destabilize the USSR. 
15 May 1987

Polyus is shot down.

21 August 1991
Coup attempt in Moscow.

The first mention of possible loose Soviet tactical nuclear weapons. Gorbachev loses control of USSR's nuclear codes. Experts fear loss of tactical nuclear weapons from arsenal. 

3 November 1991

Chechnya declares independence from Russia.

10 November 1991

Russia accuses Chechens of hijacking an Aeroflot airliner. The plane was flown to Ankara.

13 November 1991

Yeltsin sends troops into Chechnya.

1992

Gore-Chernomyrdin

25 March 1992

Col. Lunev defects to the United States.

01 April 1992

18 in federation pact: Russia saved from break-up

Emergency declared in Chechen region

09 April 1992
Vasili Mitrokhin goes to one of the new Baltic Republics walks in the British Embassy and defects. (Andrew, and Mitrokhin 14) Mitrokhin is said to have revealed the identities of hundreds of Russian Intelligence Agents. His document dump was the largest in history. It not only compromised hundreds of agents. His defection also revealed the locations of overseas GRU weapons caches. 
10 April 1992 at 9:20 pm
Baltic Exchange bombing one-ton bomb This bombing was clearly Russian retaliation for the defection of Mitrokhin. 
09 June 1992

Aeroflot Hijack

Moscow: A man from the breakaway Caucasus republic of Chechenia was killed by security forces at Vnukovo air-port, Moscow, after attempting to hijack an Aeroflot jet from Grozny to Turkey with a grenade, Tass said. The man, who was in his thirties, had threatened to blow up a Tupolev-134 aircraft.

September 1992

Bin Laden is living in Grozny. 

07 September 1992

All air links are cut off from Chechnya

?? November 1992
$$$Millions of dollars appear in Chechnya. 
13 November 1992

Chechens Rush to confront Russian Troops

?+7 November 1992
Vasili Mitrokhin, a major defector arrives in London (Andrew, and Mitrokhin 14)
14 November 1992 at 1:00am aborted-intercepted 
Stoke Newington Road lorry 3.2-ton bomb is intercepted 

This attempted bombing was more retaliation for the defection of Mitrokhin. 

16 November 1992

Dudayev declares martial law.

Late 1992

Bill Clinton meets with the Chechen Islamo-Nazi terrorist Dudayev.

26 February 1993

WTC is bombed.

PRESIDENTIAL LIMOUSINE IS DESTROYED.

7 people are killed and 300 injured. Col. Lunev asserts that the terrorists that bombed the 

27 February 1993

Seeking to procure 2000 Stinger Missiles, Ruslan Outsiev, Prime Minister of Chechnya, and his younger brother Nazerbek, having made a deal with the Royal Mint to print currency, passports and stamps for Chechnya are assassinated in London. 

Source:

Kirby, Terry. "Armenian Jailed For London KGB Killings: Arms Deal Led To Deaths Of". The Independent, 1993, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/armenian-jailed-for-london-kgb-killings-arms-deal-led-to-deaths-of-brothers-from-rebel-russian-republic-in-luxury-flat-1512278.html. Accessed 15 Dec 2020.

04 April 1993

Yeltsin / Clinton Summit

In response to protests Dudayev declares one man rule in Chechnya.
24 April 1993
BISHOPSGATE BOMBING 

May 1993

Stinger Missiles shoot down Russian Su-25 fighter-bomber in Tajikistan.

03 August 1993

Viktor Polyanichko and General Anatoly Koretsky are assassinated in North Ossetia.

21 April 1994

Clinton gets a new limousine.

29 November 1994

Chechen government officials said two Russian-made helicopters and one jet had been downed by Stinger missiles. There was no confirmation of this from Moscow.

11 December 1994

Yeltsin sends troops into Chechnya.

16 December 1994

Half the population of Grozny has been evacuated.

01 January 1995

Russian tank advance in Chechnya is stymied.

04 January 1995

“Time running out for Clinton fence-sitting”

Concerns that the Russians could lose control of their nuclear weapons is voiced, if the USA supports Chechen terrorists.

06 January 1995

Russia suffers an embarrassing defeat in Chechnya. 68 Russian tanks were destroyed.

11 January 1995

CIA Director James Woolsey testifies before congress. He claimed that disarray is possible due to the Chechnya situation. It is clear that America’s goal was to dismember Russia much the same way the Soviet Union was dismembered using the Chechen terrorists to accomplish this goal. 

09 April 1995

FRED CUNY GOES MISSING IN CHECHNYA. 

17 April 1995

Russia says it will ignore parts of pact on Conventional Forces

19 April 1995 09:02 hours

Bomb goes off at OKC.

11 May 1995

Clinton meets with Russian opposition leaders in Moscow embassy. Yeltsin opposes expansion of NATO into former Warsaw Pact countries.

12 May 1995

Richard Nixon is in Russia. He meets with VP of Russia.
22 May 1995
Dzhokhar Dudayev phone goes dead. The Russians have figured out how to jam satellite phone communications. This ability would come into play with great effect on 911. When the president's plane has it's communications jammed. 

14 June 1995

Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis

Chechen Rebels are holding 2000 Russians hostage at a hospital Budyonnovsk. 157 Russians are killed in the attack. This was a similar number to the OKC attack. THIS WAS AMERICAN RETALIATION FOR THE OKC BOMBING.

19 June 1995

G-7 Summit

Clinton urges Yeltsin to pull out of Chechnya and compares the Chechen hospital hostage situation to the OKC bombing. A similar number of Russians end up being killed in the attack. Clinton said he opposed the Russian government's military crackdown in Chechnya and, referring to Budyonnovsk, said, “Nothing, nothing, can justify this outrageous act at your hospital and innocent people being killed. It's just wrong."

30 June 1995

Charles Key holds press conference at the Oklahoma capital. Retired Brigadier General Partin testifies that a fertilizer bomb could not have caused the damage.  

General Partin claims that Governor Keating did not want the State Legislature to investigate the bombing. 

February 1996

Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered that industrial espionage become the top priority for the country's intelligence agencies. High tech know how high on list. 9-11 was a high tech attack.

21 April 1996

DZHOKHAR DUDAYEV ALLEGEDLY KILLED. He was supposedly tracked by his satellite telephone.
15 June 1996
Manchester Bombing 
Anniversary of the Budyonnovsk hospital 

25 June 1996

Khobar Towers Bombing

04 July 1996

Yeltsin is re-elected president of Russia.

17 July 1996

TWA FLIGHT 800

18 July 1996

Chechen terrorist Salman Raduyev reveals that he has received Stinger Missiles from the CIA. 

07 August 1996

BATTLE OF GROZNY

CHECHEN REBELS STORM GROZNY

Separatist rebels, led by the mastermind of a bloody hostage-taking raid last year, stormed into the Chechen capital of Grozny yesterday and fought Russian forces in their biggest offensive in months. The rebels, who shot down four helicopter gunships and killed or wounded scores of Russian soldiers also attacked two other towns -- Argun and Gudermes, both on the main road between Grozny and the adjoining region of Dagestan. Reuter television correspondent Igor Shatalov said thick smoke was billowing from the Zavodsky industrial region of Grozny and helicopters continued to circle over the city in the early evening. The rebels, armed with grenade launchers and automatic rifles, controlled parts of the capital. A rebel leader said the raids were intended to force Moscow back to the negotiating table, but a senior Russian official described the rebel leaders as ''international terrorists'' and said talks could now be ruled out. The attacks followed a Russian onslaught in the last month on what Moscow says are rebel bases.

September 1996

CIA releases “Prospects for Unsanctioned Use of Russian Nuclear Weapons”
This is a sign that the nuclear codes that were "lost" were in the hands of people other than Yeltsin. Coming a month after the Russians were embarrassingly defeated in Chechnya the timing indicates that the CIA was expecting blowback from the Battle of Grozny. 

16 November 1996

Harold James Nicholson is arrested for spying for Russia. He was gathering information on Chechnya and passing it on to the Russians.

05 February 1997

A Fateful Error NYT OPED

By George F. Kennan

The view, bluntly stated, is that expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era. 

May 1997 
Lebed said at a private briefing to a delegation of U.S. congressmen that he believed 84 of the one-kiloton bombs were unaccounted for. In the interview with 60 Minutes, conducted in late August, Lebed said he now believed the figure to be more than 100.
06 August 1997

Korean Air Flight 801

23 September 1997

Clinton gives speech on the CTBT

11 December 1997
One recent book by a former U.S. transportation department official warned, "Avoid Russian-made planes at all costs." But domestic airlines' virtual monopoly on routes inside Russia make the advice futile for long-distance travellers. ... Yesterday's incident was Russia's 10th hijacking since the Soviet Union broke up in 1991. In several, the hostage-takers
carried live grenades on to planes.
The Toronto Star December 11, 1997, Thursday, METRO EDITION
22 December 1997

Afghan-Arabs CIA launch an attack on the 136 Motorized Rifle Brigade destroying 300 vehicles including 50 brand new T-72 Tanks.

09 February 1998

Assassination attempt on Georgian President Shevardnadze.

04 April 1998

First mention of Stanislav Lunev

16 May 1998 
Bin Laden talks about Chechnya in an interview. 
08 July 1998

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ENEMY is published.

25 July 1998

Putin becomes Director of the FSB.

07 August 1998

United States Embassies are bombed in Africa killing 224. This takes place two years after Chechen Terrorists attacked Russian Forces in Grozny.

17 August 1998

The Russian Economy collapses. The Ruble falls to 4000 to the dollar. The Russians default on their debt.

17 August 1998

Clinton Apologizes to America for his improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky. 

20 August 1998

Clinton bombs Sudan pharmaceutical factory and Bin Laden's camp in Afghanistan.

07 October 1998

Michael Binyon, “Osama Bin Laden Said to Have Acquired Tactical Nuclear Weapons,” Times (London)
06 November 1998
A Grand Jury Indicts Usama Bin Laden in the United States District Court
Southern District of New York

13 November 1998

 “Report Links Bin-Ladin, Nuclear Weapons,” Al-Watan Al-Arabi

12 May 1999

Impeachment proceedings against Yeltsin begin.  

04-16 September 1999

Russian Apartment Bombings 293 killed. RETALIATION FOR THE EMBASSY BOMBINGS.

05 October 1999

STINGER missiles shoot down two Russian jets.

02 November 1999

Clinton makes a personal appeal to Putin to stem Chechen bloodshed.

26 November 1999

Col.-Gen. Vladimir Yakovlev states if US-NATO intervenes in Chechnya, then expect nuclear war. 911 was a nuclear attack. 

December 199

Yakovlev - Russia, for objective reasons, is forced to lower the threshold for using nuclear weapons, extend the nuclear deterrent to smaller-scale conflicts, and openly warn potential opponents about this.

16 January 2000

Afghanistan recognizes Chechnya.

31 January 2000

Albright meets with Igor Ivanov in Moscow. Chechnya is discussed.

23 February 2000

CIA Assassination plot to kill Putin is disrupted.

13 March 2000

Salman Raduyev is captured.

08 May 2000

Putin is inaugurated.

06 June 2000

Clinton speaks before Russian Duma.

01 August 2000

Putin fires six generals.

11 August 2000

CIA assassination plot against Putin is disrupted. 

12 August 2000

Kursk Disaster.

President Bill Clinton, in a bid to embarrass the Russians in front of Chinese naval officers observing a test firing of the Shkval torpedo, sends two Los Angeles Class attack submarines the U.S.S. Memphis and U.S.S. Toledo to destroy the Kursk. The two submarines working together destroy the Kursk causing an international incident, nearly starting a nuclear war.

USS Memphis distress buoy is found. Memphis torpedoed the Kursk. The Toledo limps to a secret dock.

15 August 2000

George Tenet head of the CIA arrives in Moscow.

18-19 August 2000

CIA assassination plot against Putin is disrupted. 

06 September 2000

Putin and Clinton meet in New York City. They have a photo op at the Waldorf-Astoria.

12 October 2000

Cole Bombing 17 sailors killed.

23 January 2001

BUSH EXPECTED TO BE TOUGH ON RUSSIA

27 January 2001

Putin Warns Against scraping the ABM Treaty and expanding NATO.

20 February 2001

Robert Philip Hanssen is arrested for espionage.

19 March 2001

Bush is trying to kill Putin.

Assassination fears for Putin after Chechens hijack plane to Saudi Arabia.

25 April 2001

Moscow’s No 2 in Chechnya killed.

22 March 2001

Bush expels 50 Russian diplomats.

17 June 2001

Bush and Putin meet at Brdo Pri Kranju, Slovenia. TENSIONS SURROUND BUSH’S BID TO SCRAP ABM TREATY AND EXPAND NATO.
09 July 2001
Plot to assassinate Bush - reports
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/20/russia.binladen/index.html

11 September 2001

Attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. Happens roughly two years to the date of the Moscow Apartment bombings. 

12 September 2001

Russian Cancel planned nuclear exercises.

15 November 2001

Putin meets with Bush in Crawford Texas.

December 2001

Bush withdraws from the ABM treaty.

22 August 2002

Vladimir Golovlyov is assassinated.
19 October 2002

Valentin Tsvetkov is assassinated.

23 October 2002

Nord-Ost hostage siege. Chechen terrorists take the Dubrovka Theater hostage.
16 November 2002
SARS OUTBREAK IN Guangdong Province China. 

22 November 2002

Bush travels to Russia. He urges Russia to give Chechnya independence.

12 March 2003

Zoran Đinđić is assassinated.

17 April 2003

Sergei N. Yushenkov is assassinated.

06 June 2003

Igor Klimov and Sergei Shchitko are assassinated.

03 July 2003

Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin, journalist, is assassinated.  

20 October 2003

Scotland Yard foils plot to kill Putin.

13 February 2004

Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev is assassinated with a car bomb in Qatar.

07 April 2004

CIA attempts to kill Ingush President Zyazikov with a car bomb.

09 May 2004

Bush has CIA assassinate Chechen President Akmad Kadyrov.

09 July 2004

Paul Klebnikov, editor of Forbes Russian edition is assassinated. 

14 July 2004

Assassination attempt on Sergei Abramov.

01 September 2004

CIA sponsored Beslan massacre. 385 people die. 

11 September 2004

The al-Islambouli Brigades (Egypt) threaten to assassinate Putin.

14 February 2005

Rafik Hariri is assassinated.

08 March 2005

CIA sponsored Chechen terrorist Aslan Maskhadov is assassinated.

18 March 2005

Anatoly Chuais survives assassination attempt. 

06 March 2006

Foreign Policy Magazine puts Putin at number 2 on a list of leaders likely to face assassination.

04 May 2006

VP Cheney accuses Moscow of using its oil and gas reserves as tools and intimidation.

14 September 2006

Andrei Andreyevich Kozlov is assassinated. He was the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation from 1997 to 1999 and again in 2002 to 2006. Kozlov was fluent in Russian, German, and English. He was married, and had three children.

07 October 2006

Anna Politkovskaya, an American born and pro-Chechen journalist was assassinated.  

23 November 2006

Alexander Litvinenko is assassinated in London.

02 March 2007

Ivan Safronov, a military affairs journalist in Russia, died in a fall from the fifth floor of his apartment building. This was an assassination.

04 March 2007

Paul M. Joyal, former KGB general and defector, is shot in front of his home.

19 July 2007

Russians expel four British diplomats.

15 October 2007

Putin is warned of assassination plot to kill him in Tehran using suicide bombers. The United States is the culprit.

12 February 2008

Badri Patarkatsishvili is assassinated.

02 March 2008

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON PUTIN.

30 March 2008

Sulim Yamadayev Chechen terrorist is assassinated in Dubai.

15 January 2012

Russia’s Mars Probe is shot down.