Why the CIA is Trying to Burn Amiri.
Counterpunch / Gareth Porter
22-Jul-2010 (one comment)

Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers that there is no such Iranian nuclear weapons programme, according to a former CIA officer.

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counterterrorism official, told me that his sources are CIA officials with direct knowledge of the entire Amiri operation.

The CIA contacts say that Amiri had been reporting to the CIA for some time before being brought to the U.S. during Hajj last year, Giraldi said, initially using satellite-based communication. But the contacts also say Amiri was a radiation safety specialist who was "absolutely peripheral" to Iran's nuclear programme, according to Giraldi.

Amiri provided "almost no information" about Iran's nuclear programme, said Giraldi, but had picked up "scuttlebutt" from other nuclear scientists with whom he was acquainted that the Iranians have no active nuclear weapon programme.

Giraldi said information from Amiri's debriefings was only a minor contribution to the intelligence community's reaffirmation in the latest assessment of Iran's nuclear programme of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)'s finding that work on a nuclear weapon has not been resumed after being halted in 2003.

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What a fiaco indeed!

by IranMilitaryForum.net on Fri Jul 23, 2010 08:26 PM PDT

"Giraldi said information from Amiri's debriefings was only a minor
contribution to the intelligence community's reaffirmation in the latest
assessment of Iran's nuclear programme of the 2007 National
Intelligence Estimate (NIE)'s finding that work on a nuclear weapon has
not been resumed after being halted in 2003."

 

In early 90's several Iranian students who managed to stay in the US after attending a conference told me that FBI and CIA were relentessly knocking on their doors to gain any information on Iran's nuclear program since some of these students had done minor projects with Iran Atomic Iran in their past according to their resume provided to the local university. They climed that their interrogators were so desperate that they would be happy to know the name of the doorman at the site they worked.

I am not at all surprised how CIA fell for it all out of desperation to gain any intelligence! Should we thank MKO for selling Amiri's case to CIA?

 

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