[Peach]

I'm not so certain I believe that Chalabi story at all.

Consider this:

Presumably Chalabi told Iran that the US had broken their secret code.

Then Iran used the same secret code to communicate with their allies and our enemies that we had broken the code.

Iranian regime members may not be rocket scientists may not be rocket scientists, but they are not stupid either.

[Helms]

Details emerged in April 1997 of one of the CIA’s greatest failures since its operations began. Up to 300 Iraqis died as the result of a failed attempt by the CIA to overthrow Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader. The CIA financed an Iraqi opposition group (the Iraqi National Accord) which killed 100 people in a bombing campaign against civilian targets in Baghdad and other cities, and fomented a military coup against the Iraqi leader. In June 1996 Saddam Hussein struck first, crushing the CIA-backed coup with ease; as many as 80 officers were executed or died under torture. In August Iraqi tanks also intervened in the Kurdish civil war, catching and killing 120 members of the CIA-backed dissident group. The débâcle led to the liquidation of the agency’s extensive operation in northern Iraq, and the then CIA director John Deutsch stepped down 1997.

[Walkingfeather]

well do you believe one guy? Do people have huge confidence in their codes? What is the point of making up such a specific story, Raiding the offices of the guy you are paying 345,000 a month, you have backed publically, In order to make such a turnaround you have to have something REALLY BIG. Finding out the guy that you trusted has blown a huge operational hole in your organization would be that huge. A mistake on the level that would cost Tenet his job.