IRAN: Book says U.S. spies pump Dubai visa applicants for intel
LA Times / Borzou Daragahi
17-Sep-2009 (2 comments)

The CIA stepped in to prevent the United States from closing a consulate in the Persian Gulf city-state of Dubai, arguing that it was a gold mine of human intelligence from Iran.

That's according a new book, “City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism,” by former Associated Press correspondent Jim Krane.

The State Department tried “more than once” to shut down its consular services office in Dubai for budget reasons.

But it ran up against the resistance of senior intelligence officials.

For decades, they'd been gleaning precious information about Iran by grilling hundreds of Iranian visa applicants, according to the book.

The CIA several times over the years managed to convince the State Department to make cuts elsewhere, Krane writes in the book, released in the U.S. this week.

Iranians applying for U.S. visas in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai are “monitored, interrogated and, sometimes, recruited into spying on their own government” by Iran specialists and Farsi speakers working for the CIA or other American agencies, the book says.

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Shah Ghollam

It reminds me of...

by Shah Ghollam on Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:00 PM PDT

 

It reminds of the Zionist regime mentality of massacaring over thousands of defenseless civilians in Lebanon and then in Gaza and then blaming it on Hamas and Hezbollah. How would you like to hear if hitler said the holocaust was the Jews fault?

Follow the line from Tel Aviv is your orders obviously!

 Boldly Expose Zionists


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Farhad Kashani

Shah Gholam, Since your

by Farhad Kashani on Thu Sep 17, 2009 03:14 PM PDT

Shah Gholam,

Since your beloved IRI’s founder Khomeini asked neighbors to spy on their neighbors, he has made all Iranians become a suspect, and he made our country on top of the list of terror sponsors, and he has established the biggest Islamic Terrorism network in the world.

 

Since you are too much of a cold hearted …. to care for the suffrage of Iranian people, you should know that Iranians are looked at as “viruses” all over the world because of what your devlish regime IRI has done.

Now you have the audacity and come out here and blame others for IRIs crimes


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