Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's statement saying that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) declassified 13 million pages of documents just so that they can leak two pages related to Bumiputera Malaysia Finance Limited (BMF), aimed at demonising him is ludicrous, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak.
He said many countries declassified documents that are classified or under the Official Secrets Act 1972 after 25, 35, or more years depending on the sensitivity of those documents while some, of course, remain classified forever.
"Actually the BMF report is just two pages out of 13 million pages that the CIA declassified and is purely coincidental.
"The CIA did not declassify just these two pages regarding the BMF issue alone," he said in his blog at http://sskeruak.blogspot.my/, Wednesday.
According to Salleh, the former prime minister had said that the recently-released CIA report implicating him in the 1983 multi-billion BMF scandal was meant to demonise him because he criticises the United States (US).
"If that is true why did the CIA wait 34 years to do this? They would have done it when he was still Prime Minister and not now when he is no longer important to the US," he added. - Bernama
Bernama
Wed Jan 25 2017
Salleh says Dr Mahathir had said the recently-released CIA report implicating him in the 1983 multi-billion BMF scandal was meant to demonise him because he criticises the US. - Filepic
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