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
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“We have narrowed down their headquarters location to the state of Virginia.”
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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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.
“They have a killer cafeteria with Surf-N-Turf Wednesdays”....
I predict that this guy will permanently disappear after the media flurry dies down.
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.
Well stated.
Obama probably hand-delivered it.
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.
Although politically driven, the NIE was based on intelligence from Amiri, whom the CIA had rated as solid gold reliable.
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