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CIA Gave Iran Bomb Plans, Book Says
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U.S. officials have long maintained that Iran's rulers want to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran has insisted that it seeks to develop only a civilian nuclear energy program. Whatever the case, the CIA was desperate to counter what it believed was a clandestine nuclear program, and turned to a Russian defector who had once been a nuclear scientist in the former Soviet republics, according to the book.
The book says the CIA worked with the U.S.-based defector to concoct a story about how he was destitute, but in possession of valuable nuclear weapons blueprints that had been secreted out of Russia.
CIA officials had concerns about the man's temperament, Risen says, but sent the defector and the blueprints to Vienna anyway, with orders to hand-deliver them to someone at Tehran's diplomatic mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
www.latimes.com...
Originally posted by HiddenReality
So the CIA being incompetent is proof they have not carried out terrorist acts?
Im starting to think Bush is not a dumb American, but a surprisingly intelligent example of an average American. Maybe the CIA should stick to murdering and butchering what they do best, instead of trying to play with the big boys of intel.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
Originally posted by HiddenReality
So the CIA being incompetent is proof they have not carried out terrorist acts?
Im starting to think Bush is not a dumb American, but a surprisingly intelligent example of an average American. Maybe the CIA should stick to murdering and butchering what they do best, instead of trying to play with the big boys of intel.
Well which is it? Are they incompetant, or are they so great that they're capable of carrying out most of the terrorist acts as some people are claiming. You can't have it both ways here.
I get the sense that this is part of some larger ruse. Am I the only one?