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.
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.....
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.
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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