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2008-06-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-06-05 13:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 If CIA had already rejected the source as "untrustworthy", what would be the point in sharing the information? DIA might have been interested because sometimes in a rumor or even fantasy, there is some kernel of truth around which the rest of the information is arrayed.

Also, if CIA had already known of the source and rejected it, might the failure in sharing have gone initially in the OTHER direction? It is possible that CIA had heard the information already, rejected it, and failed to share it with DoD who went and got the information themselves.

Articles like this are generally crap but like everything else, there is generally a truth in there someplace. I would find it believable that DoD talked to the Iranian. The rest of the article is probably goop.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-05 13:57|| 2008-06-05 13:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Nah, they're just all dirty...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-06-05 13:57|| 2008-06-05 13:57|| Front Page Top

#3 I am SHOCKED, I tell you, I am deeply SHOCKED at this revelation!!!

Posted by James Carville 2008-06-05 15:26|| 2008-06-05 15:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Compare wid WAFF.com Thread > ASIA TIMES - DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA: WHEN THE NUKES START DROPPING. Cordesman Govt Report "IRAN, ISRAEL, AND NUCLEAR WAR". Israeli-Iranian NucWar scenario sometime bwtn 2010-2020.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-05 20:57|| 2008-06-05 20:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Then-Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith sent two Pentagon employees to the Rome meetings with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian dissident already dismissed by the CIA as untrustworthy....., and several Iranians who were former and current members of the security service. It also involved an unspecified foreign government's intelligence service.

Ghorbanifar used one of those meetings to press for regime change in Iran, and outlined a plan for it on a napkin, according to the report, saying it would cost about $5 million to start.

And the COS and COM in Rome knew nothing of any of these meets or their content...? I call total BULLSHI**! The term "untrustworthy" as applied to an intelligence source, should not be interpreted as not important or not sensitive. "The term "untrustworthy" or unreliable CAN be used to also keep the flies away.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-06-05 22:16|| 2008-06-05 22:16|| Front Page Top

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