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2010-07-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

CIA suspects Iranian nuclear defector was a double agent

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Posted by lotp 2010-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 well, no $#!t Sherlock. what might have been your first clue?

Posted by abu do you love 2010-07-18 01:21|| 2010-07-18 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 he was met by his wife and hugged his seven-year-old son.

What kind of an idiot defects leaving his family hostage?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-07-18 04:10|| 2010-07-18 04:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Given what he had here and how he was received in Iran, there is no logical reason for him to return to Iran other than it was all prearranged. I doubt for a minute that Iran could communicate with him after he left there, so it is more likely that he was a plant.

Why is the CIA so bent on telling everone who will listen that he cooperated with us? It seems so naiive and desperate.

The CIA is toast as is their NIE.

They have become a bureaucracy that puts rules before common sense and turf battles and politics before the common good. Agencies like this need to be scattered to the four winds and rebuilt whenever they start playing politics, or at least they need to be stirred up real good.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-18 04:17|| 2010-07-18 04:17|| Front Page Top

#4 First as tragedy then as farce.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-07-18 06:05|| 2010-07-18 06:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Please file next to FOB Chapman under short memories:

Mouth of the Potomac
by The Washington Bureau
December 31, 2009 11:40 AM 1 Comment
7 CIA Officers Killed in Eastern Afghanistan »
By James Gordon Meek

CIA Director Leon Panetta has confirmed this morning the grim news that seven of his intelligence operatives were killed yesterday by a suicide bomber inside Forward Operating Base Chapman. The camp is located just outside the city of Khowst, about 10 miles from the Pakistan border in eastern Afghanistan - the epicenter of the border fight with Al Qaeda-supported Pashtun militias.

Those who fell yesterday were far from home and close to the enemy, doing the hard work that must be done to protect our country from terrorism, Panetta told agency employees today.

Khowst is the hometown of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the legendary mujahedeen commander of the anti-Soviet jihad, who was a CIA ally during that war. Haqqanis young son, Siraj, became a Pashtun tribal warrior at his fathers knee while the warlords network hosted the Afghan Arabs including Osama Bin Laden. Now Siraj is the Afghan Talibans field commander - though calling a Haqqani Taliban is still truthfully only a Western distinction.

The bombing - which targeted the CIA base - was undoubtedly a revenge attack in what has become a very personal war. CIA drones have attacked numerous Haqqani family safehouses on the Pakistan side of the Durand Line, particularly near the networks Miram Shah headquarters, and have killed many close kin of father and son.

The irony is that after the 9/11 attacks, the CIA tried to recruit Jalaluddin Haqqani back as an asset, the Daily News confirmed in 2007 - but he refused them and instead has been protected by Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence directorate. Pakistans government sees the Haqqanis as a foil to Indian influence in Afghanistan after U.S. forces begin withdrawing in 2011 under President Obamas plan - to the chagrin of senior U.S. intelligence officials who opposed announcing that timeline.

The Taliban claimed killing 20 CIA officers in an operation carried out by an Afghan soldier, the hero, Samiullah, when the CIA employees were gathered at the club to collect and coordinate intelligence information about the mujahedeen.

Yesterdays tragedy reminds us that the men and women of the CIA put their lives at risk every day to protect this nation, Panetta said. Throughout our history, the reality is that those who make a real difference often face real danger.

The CIA also said that, Due to the sensitivity of their mission and other ongoing operations, neither the names of those killed nor the details of their work are being released at this time.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-18 06:17|| 2010-07-18 06:17|| Front Page Top

#6 What gorb said. CIA's broken, can't be fixed.

Raze it and start over.

Posted by lex 2010-07-18 12:30|| 2010-07-18 12:30|| Front Page Top

#7 "Raze it and start over."

Agreed. The US should use some concepts from private enterprise. They should have two primary analysis groups. The one that is "correct" is the one that gets the funding/resources. Competition and innovation give better results. When one agency has a monopoly on their product, there is a certain amount of "going through the motions" that happens.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-07-18 14:13|| 2010-07-18 14:13|| Front Page Top

#8 The one that is "correct" is the one that gets the funding/resources. Competition and innovation give better results.

Seems like a great idea as long as they don't start protecting their analysis and "IP" from the other, so maybe they should get rewarded for good sharing and assists, too.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-18 15:38|| 2010-07-18 15:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Well at least they didn't get blown up like their superstar chief of station in Afghanistan let happen recently (RIP), with a birthday cake and everything for the guy. Maybe they ought to stop using Survivor reruns for training.

Posted by Goober Goobelopolous 2010-07-18 17:28|| 2010-07-18 17:28|| Front Page Top

#10 uh sorry Besoeker, you already mentioned it. Usually I read all the comments first.

Posted by Goober Goobelopolous 2010-07-18 17:30|| 2010-07-18 17:30|| Front Page Top

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