Former CIA officer sentenced to 3½ years in Iran leaks case
Associated Press ^ | May 11, 2015 2:55 PM EDT
Posted on 5/11/2015, 3:08:18 PM by Olog-hai
A former CIA officer has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for leaking details of a secret mission to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Jeffrey Sterling of O’Fallon, Missouri, was facing a recommended sentence of 20 years or more under federal sentencing guidelines for violations of the Espionage Act. …
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Iran - CIA ‘gave bomb plan to Tehran’ (Clinton Legacy - Nuclear weapons)
1/4/2006, 6:36:46 PM · by HAL9000 · 21 replies · 4,812+ views
Gulf Daily News ^ | January 5, 2005
VIENNA: The CIA, using a double-agent Russian scientist, may have handed a blueprint for a nuclear bomb to Iran. State of War by James Risen, the New York Times reporter who exposed the Bush administration’s controversial domestic spying operation, claims the plans contained fatal flaws designed to derail Tehran’s nuclear drive. But the deliberate errors were so rudimentary they would have been easily fixed by sophisticated Russian nuclear scientists, the book said. The operation, which took place during the Clinton administration in early 2000, was codenamed Operation Merlin and “may have been one of the most reckless operations in...