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2010-07-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

U.S. paid Iranian nuke scientist $5 million for aid to CIA

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Posted by tu3031 2010-07-15 11:25|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Looks like they fed him well too.

Posted by Lumpy Anguting2786 2010-07-15 12:22|| 2010-07-15 12:22|| Front Page Top

#2 If he shows up dead in Iran, he might have given us worthwhile information. If he thrives, was he a double? Or maybe they know that killing him validates his data, so they keep him thriving as disception? Or maybe we know that and he is a triple reverse penetration agent?
Or maybe he's a dope?
Wilderness of Mirrors....

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-07-15 12:50|| 2010-07-15 12:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Very generous of the CIA to let him use YouTube and a webcam, not to mention the $50 million offer, after he'd been tortured so much.

Posted by Clyde Ulamp8999 2010-07-15 14:22|| 2010-07-15 14:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Speaking to journalists after a flight via Qatar, Amiri repeated his earlier claims that he was snatched while in the Saudi holy city of Medina and carried off to the United States. The first months were full of intense pressures, he claimed. "I was under the harshest mental and physical torture," he said at the Tehran airport, with his young son sitting on his lap.

He also claimed that Israeli agents were present during the interrogations and that CIA officers offered him $50 million to remain in America. He gave no further details to back up the claims or shed any new light on his time in the United States, but promised to reveal more later.

"I have some documents proving that I've not been free in the United States and have always been under the control of armed agents of U.S. intelligence services," Amiri told reporters.

Previously he claimed the CIA "pressured me to help with their propaganda against Iran," he said, including offering him up to $10 million to talk to U.S. media and claim to have documents on a laptop against Iran. He said he refused to take the money.

Amiri refused to say how if under guard he could have escaped U.S. agents to release videos in which he alleges that he had been snatched by American and Saudi kidnap teams while on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. He said that to disclose such information now could harm national security, and said he would explain everything later.

Yeah...later.

Posted by tu3031 2010-07-15 15:36|| 2010-07-15 15:36|| Front Page Top

#5 He is SO toast.

Posted by Fester Glatch7715 2010-07-15 15:50|| 2010-07-15 15:50|| Front Page Top

#6 well, he either tells the Iranians he gave the CIA no info - which would seem to indicate (via $5 million greenbacks) that he is lying, and they torture/imprison/kill him; or he tells them all the juicy info he gave up for the $5 million and they/torture/imprison/kill him. Sucks to be him, as they'll surely take that money before he can get it

Posted by Frank G 2010-07-15 18:54|| 2010-07-15 18:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Either way, he dies flat broke. Only outstanding question is how soon.

Posted by Mike N. 2010-07-15 21:16|| 2010-07-15 21:16|| Front Page Top

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