Treasure trove of intelligence files unearthed (Iraqi “Stasi” docs names names)

Sydney Morning Herald (from the Washington Post) ^ | November 4, 2003

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The US is investigating weapons procurement networks and agents of influence who took money from Saddam Hussein's regime after the CIA reportedly seized an extensive cache of files from the former Iraqi Intelligence Service.

The files contain "almost as much as the Stasi files", said one American official, referring to the vast archives of the former East German intelligence service seized after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989...

The recipients of the Iraqi funds were described by US officials not as formal intelligence agents, but as prominent personalities and political figures who accepted money from Iraq as they defended Saddam Hussein publicly or pressed his causes...

Click here to read the rest of the article in the Sydney Morning Herald.

[longtermmemmory]

fogive but this is one time when the public needs to know the names, all of them.

[John Lenin]

Now we have to ask ourselves what the CIA is going to do with the list of names.

Now it's starting to make sense why Bush left Tennent is. A HUGH coverup is in the works.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. that might have worked under the clinton admin, but I don't think it works with the Bush admin.

[Wolfhound777]

We should freep the press to get on this. Maybe that'll help. Americans have the right to know. What if one is running for or is in public office right now? The public should know that.

You are right. This needs to be pursued. I tend to believe that some folks in Congress are on the list and the Clintoons don't care where ther get their money. They have already sold out the nations top secret technology for Communist China campaign money.

[Wolfhound777]

Many in the UN (and here in the U.S.) fought like hell to keep us from going into Iarq - to the point where they seemed to be going insane

This tells us we are doing the right thing. I know the country is on the right track if the UN, France, Germany, and the democRats are opposed to it.

[sarasmom]

What would you do with the names, if you had them?