Nbadan
01-04-2006, 02:00 PM
CIA Gave Iran Bomb Plans, Book Says
By Josh Meyer
The Los Angeles Times
Wednesday 04 January 2006
The nuclear designs were intentionally flawed, but Tehran was tipped off and could have made use of them, the writer contends.
Washington - In a clumsy effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, the CIA in 2004 intentionally handed Tehran some top-secret bomb designs laced with a hidden flaw that U.S. officials hoped would doom any weapon made from them, according to a new book about the U.S. intelligence agency.
But the Iranians were tipped to the scheme by the Russian defector hired by the CIA to deliver the plans and may have gleaned scientific information useful for designing a bomb, writes New York Times reporter James Risen in "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration."
The clandestine CIA effort was just one of many alleged intelligence failures during the Bush administration, according to the book.
Truthout (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010406K.shtml)
This would be funny if it wasn't so frightening.
:hat
By Josh Meyer
The Los Angeles Times
Wednesday 04 January 2006
The nuclear designs were intentionally flawed, but Tehran was tipped off and could have made use of them, the writer contends.
Washington - In a clumsy effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, the CIA in 2004 intentionally handed Tehran some top-secret bomb designs laced with a hidden flaw that U.S. officials hoped would doom any weapon made from them, according to a new book about the U.S. intelligence agency.
But the Iranians were tipped to the scheme by the Russian defector hired by the CIA to deliver the plans and may have gleaned scientific information useful for designing a bomb, writes New York Times reporter James Risen in "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration."
The clandestine CIA effort was just one of many alleged intelligence failures during the Bush administration, according to the book.
Truthout (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010406K.shtml)
This would be funny if it wasn't so frightening.
:hat