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| Iran Now Says Nuclear Scientist Was Double Agent |
| 2010-07-23 |
| Iran fired a new salvo on Wednesday in what is becoming a bizarre propaganda war over the supposed defection and later return of an Iranian nuclear scientist, with Iran’s semiofficial media suggesting that he was a covert operative who had provided “valuable information” about the Central Intelligence Agency’s inner workings. American officials have said that the scientist, Shahram Amiri, was a C.I.A. informant for years in Iran, providing “significant” information about Iran’s nuclear program and voluntarily defecting to the United States in 2009. Mr. Amiri returned to Iran last week, saying he had been abducted and tortured by American authorities. Iran now appears to be turning those claims around, casting Mr. Amiri — whose fate seemed uncertain after his return last week — as the double-agent hero of a plan to outwit American intelligence agencies and provide false nuclear data. His story is being made into a television movie by a company affiliated with Iran’s state network, said the semiofficial Fars news agency. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 probably to keep him out of their business i.e.: The CIA used it to keep W out of the CIA's business. Of course, they would have done that willingly, ignoring that pesky little consequences of Iran having an easier time getting the bomb. But hey, what's more important? Turf wars or the safety of the American people? |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-23 11:31 |
| #4 My guess that, as a double agent, he was a bust for the Iranians. Never got close enough to intel of interest to them to even speculate on it, let alone get first hand observation. I don't think this was the Iranians' intent. Remember the politically disastrous CIA NIE from a few years back? I suspect he relayed all kinds of disinformation that the CIA lapped out of his hand in order to discredit W, probably to keep him out of their business. It also steered our ship in the wrong direction since then, getting us off the Iran's back for the last three years. The only one going after him will be the CIA. Maybe. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-23 11:28 |
| #3 Whatever happends, this guy is a dead man. The Mullahs will have him killed, and the CIA made sure that would happen by telling them how "helpful" he had been for years. My guess that, as a double agent, he was a bust for the Iranians. Never got close enough to intel of interest to them to even speculate on it, let alone get first hand observation. We should do this with the Gitmo detainees too. Make a big production of thanking them, give them each a hundred large, and send them home 1st class. They'd all be dead in a week. The Islamofascisti all think just like Joe Stalin. Better they kill them than risk any possible threat to the regime, however small. |
| Posted by: B Dubya 2010-07-23 08:13 |
| #2 Somehow, I doubt he was a double agent. That implies he was working for both sides. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-23 02:25 |
| #1 ...Was wondering if anybody over there has told Mr. Amiri that he'll be getting whacked soon by the 'CIA' in the form of guys who look a lot like Iranian security... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2010-07-23 02:10 |