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Ex-CIA agent who consults for ABC and talks to the US and European press a lot, member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), one of Hersh's sources on the Niger forgery story:

Wilsongate: Motive, Means, and Opportunity

Seymour Hersh reported that Vince Cannistraro had learned about the forgeries a few months after October 2002 through an inside source at CIA: “Vincent Cannistraro. . .told me that copies of the Burba documents were given to the American Embassy, which passed them on to the C.I.A.'s chief of station in Rome, who forwarded them to Washington. Months later, he said, he telephoned a contact at C.I.A. headquarters and was told that ‘the jury was still out on this’--that is, on the authenticity of the documents.”