Two Decades, Two Spies, One Massive Blow: Pentagon Reveals Secret Intel Coup Behind Iran Strikes

Tampa Free Press ^ | Jun. 26, 2025 | Erin Sherwood

[libstripper]

The U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, which shook the Middle East last week, were not a spur-of-the-moment decision, but the meticulously executed culmination of nearly two decades of covert intelligence gathering by an unassuming duo.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine revealed the astonishing details today, painting a picture of unparalleled dedication and precision.

[libstripper]

Nice to know about, but only because a few traitors revealed inaccurate, vital information was it necessary to reveal this.

[Resolute Conservative]

Nothing like burning your sources. Morons.

[larrytown]

"For an astonishing 15 years, from 2009 until the recent strikes on June 21, these two operatives focused their entire professional lives on a single objective: the Fordow nuclear facility."

And now, they're losing their positions as the target is obliterated, and DOGE auditors recommended immediate enforced retirement. Win-win!

[Salvavida]

Because we have to talk about everything. We are Americans.

Every Security Classification Guide puts this 25 years AFTER the operation concludes, from being disclosed. Sometimes, it’s 50 years after a review if it’s a source or technique that needs to be protected.

And if the supposed lead was false, Why are we trying to correct it? Um....counterintelligence?

[DIRTYSECRET]

The article says nothin specific other than they worked on it non-stop. Their only leads had to come from satellite surveillance or computer worms. Says in the country-I don’t think so.

[catnipman]

very interesting ... clearly bombing the ingress/egress portals would be a waste of effort: those could be rebuilt pretty quickly and blast shockwaves would probably be blocked in the interior by a series of doglegs and probably wouldn't provide direct access to subsurface operational levels anyway ...

ventilation shafts are a whole different story however, likely offering direct access to all subsurface levels, and sending massive explosives down those holes would produce shock waves in every direction to all connected levels ... even drilling new shafts wouldn't make any difference if everything inside the facility was blasted into radioactive smithereens ...

i guess the mullahs never watched the original Star Wars movie [Luke Skywalker exploited a vulnerability: a two-meter wide thermal exhaust port that led directly to the station's main reactor. This flaw allowed proton torpedoes to be fired into the reactor, triggering a chain reaction that ultimately destroyed the superweapon.]

[adorno]

And now, they're losing their positions as the target is obliterated, and DOGE auditors recommended immediate enforced retirement.

It's also very possible that the DOD and intelligence agencies are putting out false information in order to hide the true nature of the efforts that went into the intelligence gathering.

Whoever performed the intelligence gathering were probably assigned to other missions, or there were no real intelligence operatives from the U.S., and might still be in there for further missions as Iranian citizens.

Their covers are not being blown, or they are getting new missions, somewhere in the middle-east. Nobody in the U.S. is going to tell the enemy 'here is how we did it'.

[catnipman]

very interesting ... clearly bombing the ingress/egress portals would be a waste of effort: those could be rebuilt pretty quickly and blast shockwaves would probably be blocked in the interior by a series of doglegs and probably wouldn't provide direct access to subsurface operational levels anyway ...

ventilation shafts are a whole different story however, likely offering direct access to all subsurface levels, and sending massive explosives down those holes would produce shock waves in every direction to all connected levels ... even drilling new shafts wouldn't make any difference if everything inside the facility was blasted into radioactive smithereens ...

i guess the mullahs never watched the original Star Wars movie: [Luke Skywalker exploited a vulnerability: a two-meter wide thermal exhaust port that led directly to the station's main reactor. The exhaust port, designed to vent heat, was a relatively small opening (about two meters wide, comparable to a womp rat) located at the end of a trench. This seemingly minor design flaw, deemed an unlikely risk, allowed proton torpedoes to be fired into the reactor, triggering a chain reaction that ultimately destroyed the superweapon.]

[PeterPrinciple]

these two operatives focused their entire professional lives on a single objective: the Fordow nuclear facility.

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Their work is done...........................

[SMARTY]

How did the Dems keep quiet about this for so long?

[logi_cal869]

The narrative was written Sunday night. /s

[Jumpmaster]

“ Every Security Classification Guide puts this 25 years AFTER the operation concludes, from being disclosed. Sometimes, it’s 50 years after a review if it’s a source or technique that needs to be protected.“

75 years, if it’s to protect Big Pharma.

[ridesthemiles]

IMO-—OUT SATELLITE ABILITIES ARE COMPLETELY UNDERSTATED.

WE CAN SEE MORE & SEE IT MORE CLEARLY THAN EVER BEFORE.

AND THAT IS ALWAYS IMPROVING

[ridesthemiles]

NAH-—ONLY STAGE ONE

[Retain Mike]

Where is the need to know? No one should ever trust our intelligence (?) community.

[cgbg]

They should have had some fun and thanked some senior Iranian officials (by name and rank) for their assistance.

Lol.

[adorno]

They should have had some fun and thanked some senior Iranian officials (by name and rank) for their assistance.

Sounds like it would be a fun thing to do, but...

If those senior officials would have been huge assets to the spies/informants, so, better to leave those officials in place for use in the future.

[piasa]

It probably started before 2009... since Iran had obtained quite a bit of stuff from Pakistan’s Qadeer Khan Network and was from time to time exchanging with Libya... and we had been watching AQKhan for years trying to see up his contacts... I would think much of what Iran was doing was under the microscope all along.

But, the majority of the details probably can from that haul made by the Israelis from the Iranian archives and from a high value defector or so.

[Hot Tabasco]

The one thing that truly amazes me is the number of intelligence experts that inhabit this website.

We are truly blessed to get their expert opinions on what exactly happened in Iran and in other global affairs.

[cgbg]

I want them to name bona fide enemy Iranian military officials—let the Iranians try to figure out if we are lying.