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Iran says its nuclear scientist brought back valuable information on the CIA (lol)
FOX'AP ^ | July 21, 2010

Posted on 07/21/2010 5:50:52 AM PDT by nuconvert

An Iranian nuclear scientist who returned home last week from the United States provided valuable information about the CIA, a semiofficial news agency reported Wednesday, adding that his spy's tale would be made into a TV movie

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2010; 201007; 2012; amiri; cia; iran; irandeal; iranianspies; iranianwmd; irannukes; iranwmds; nie; save; spies; spooks

1 posted on 07/21/2010 5:50:53 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

He showed them this discovery:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency


2 posted on 07/21/2010 5:55:31 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: nuconvert

“We have narrowed down their headquarters location to the state of Virginia.”


3 posted on 07/21/2010 5:58:25 AM PDT by decimon
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To: nuconvert

Unfortunately, the questions asked by the CIA provide critical insights into our knowledge of Iran’s nuclear program. Persia invented the game of chess and has three thousand years of history as an organized society to draw on for an understanding of national strategy and how to run intelligence operations. The CIA has some good people but as an organization is crippled by political correctness and limited competence in human intelligence operations.


4 posted on 07/21/2010 6:00:23 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham
The CIA has some good people but as an organization is crippled by political correctness and limited competence in human intelligence operations.

Something similar could be said about Iran. They have some good people, but are crippled by a whacked out religious ideology which limits the competence not only in their human intel operations, but at the top of their leadership as well.....

5 posted on 07/21/2010 6:05:08 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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To: Rockingham

The Iranians, or Persians, if you will, whom I have known are about as subtle as a sledgehammer and as smooth as caustic soda. Ahmadinejad is their president, for God’s sake. Monarchist, Islamist, Marxist, hedonist, they are all as transparent as glass and deep as a mud puddle.


6 posted on 07/21/2010 6:08:37 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: Rockingham

Every defector must be regarded as a potential double agent. Since the CIA did not give this guy the 5 mill it seems they had doubts.Hopefully they conducted their interrogations with those doubts in mind.My guess is the best we get out of this is no harm no foul, but you may, I fear , be right. With this admin who knows what their orders were.
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7 posted on 07/21/2010 6:16:49 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Thermalseeker
Even crazy, dysfunctional regimes can be good at intelligence, especially human intelligence, because survival requires it and ideological or religious fervor is a potent motivator. During the Cold War, for example, the Soviets repeatedly beat the West at human intelligence despite communism's profound rottenness.

As for Iran, after the Shah was overthrown, the mullahs made peace with and kept on many of the veterans of the Shah's secular minded intelligence agency, SAVAK, which had considerable experience with US and Western intelligence methods and thinking. As far as Iran's ruling mullahs are concerned, staying in power and looting Iran's wealth is more important than religious and ideological consistency.

8 posted on 07/21/2010 6:35:06 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: nuconvert

“They have a killer cafeteria with Surf-N-Turf Wednesdays”....


9 posted on 07/21/2010 6:38:04 AM PDT by Allthegoodusernamesaregone
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To: nuconvert

I predict that this guy will permanently disappear after the media flurry dies down.


10 posted on 07/21/2010 6:38:31 AM PDT by Ford4000
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Yet Iranian intelligence snookered the CIA in a long running double agent operation that, at a critical moment, led US intelligence to falsely conclude while George Bush was in office that Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons program.

Similarly, like the Iranians, the Cold War Soviets were notorious for bad accents, bad suits, and poor personal grooming, they penetrated every Western intelligence agency with often devastating consequences. Crude does not necessarily mean ineffective.

11 posted on 07/21/2010 7:09:14 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: xkaydet65

Well stated.


12 posted on 07/21/2010 7:13:55 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: nuconvert

Obama probably hand-delivered it.


13 posted on 07/21/2010 7:15:45 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Rockingham
Iranian intelligence snookered the CIA in a long running double agent operation that, at a critical moment, led US intelligence to falsely conclude while George Bush was in office that Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons program.

It only snookered those who wanted to be snookered. No other intelligence agency in the world concluded that Iran had cease its nuclear weapons program. The so-called National Intelligence Assessment was a politcal document intended to constrain President Bush from attacking Iranian nuclear facilities prior to leaving office. It was hardly even a fig leaf for those who prefer bureaucratic torpor to action, but it was effective in forstalling any action by the U.S. BTW, the assessment merely asserted that Iran had ceased work on weapons design, not that they had ceased uranium enrichment. It could just as well have been read to conclude that they had settled on a design and were just waiting to accumulate enough fissile material.

14 posted on 07/21/2010 7:58:11 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Although politically driven, the NIE was based on intelligence from Amiri, whom the CIA had rated as solid gold reliable.


15 posted on 07/21/2010 8:18:29 AM PDT by Rockingham
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