[trumandogz]

Looks as though the Iran Operation was broken way long before Clinton was elected.

[Southack]

"Looks as though the Iran Operation was broken way long before Clinton was elected."

It only *appears* that way to someone who believes the LA Times rather than post #14 on this thread.

[PhilDragoo]

There was only need of an Iran operation because Carter betrayed the Shah and paved the way for Khomenei.

Carter's DCI Turner fired 820 case officers October 31, 1977, a blow from which the agency has never recovered.

Robert Baer, See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terror, Crown, 2002.