(in 2004) CIA Gave Iran (Atomic) Bomb Plans

[papau]

I like how the atom bomb mess was after a CIA officer mistakenly sent an Iranian agent information that could help identify nearly every one of the spy agency's undercover operatives in Iran, the Iranian being a known double agent who turned over the data to Iranian authorities, which they used it to dismantle the CIA's spy network inside the country and arrest or possibly kill an unknown number of U.S. agents.

It is time for the Adults to be in charge - that is what our media told us.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-intel4jan04,0,6972451.story?track=tottext

From the Los Angeles Times
THE WORLD
CIA Gave Iran Bomb Plans, Book Says
The nuclear designs were intentionally flawed, but Tehran was tipped off and could have made use of them, the writer contends.
By Josh Meyer
Times Staff Writer

January 4, 2006

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.

Risen also cites intelligence gaffes that fueled the Bush administration's case for war against Saddam Hussein, spawned a culture of torture throughout the U.S. military and encouraged the rise of heroin cultivation and trafficking in postwar Afghanistan.<snip>

[havocmom]

1. So, WE gave them plans then criticize them for having plans?

Sorta like selling Saddam chemicals then, decades later (when they are no longer potent) we pound the shit outta Iraq for having them.

Yep, war is good... for the corporations making the fixins for war. And we will keep starting wars until we fix that equation.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. We gave them nothing useful. It is the writer's contention that....

...that Iran "could" have deduced the flaw.

[havocmom]

4. Realize that. Question still stands. We gave them plans then threaten

because they have a program to make what the plans were suggesting? Set up just so somebody can make some big bucks while innocents and US military die for profit.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. "The nuclear designs were intentionally flawed", is the most important....

...part of this story. The usual red herring that appears with all information of this sort is the following comment: "but Tehran was tipped off and could have made use of them, the writer contends."

"Could". "The writer contends".

IMHO, this is yet another piece of disinformation designed to push the U. S. into another Middle Eastern conflict...this time against Iran. The rest of book may be fine, but this is pure propaganda.

[struggle4progress]

5. Two separate acts, one in 2000 (Bush I), another in 2004 (Bush II)

CIA gave Iran plans for making nukes, book says
By TRACY CONNOR
New York Daily News

<snip> The nuclear snafu happened in February 2000 when the CIA enlisted the Russian defector to supply misinformation to Iran as part of a program code-named Merlin.

He was given plans for a "firing set" for a Russian-designed bomb -- the trigger for a chain reaction that Iran needed to build its own nukes. <snip>

Risen, who exposed the Bush administration's controversial domestic eavesdropping program, also chronicles another mistake. In 2004, an officer accidentally sent a computerized message to an Iranian agent that revealed the identities of virtually every spy in the country.

The recipient was a double agent and turned over the information to security officials in Tehran, and many of the CIA operatives were jailed. <snip>

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/13546451.htm

[papau]

6. My error - I read the 2004 date and missed the 2000 date. But "jailed"

after 2004 mistake per Daily News contradicts CIA statement that implied no real problem.

[struggle4progress]

7. Possible mistake may be LAT's. eom

[TheBaldyMan]

8. puts me in mind of that Bill Hick's routine ....

Bill stands stage left
Bill: Hey Saddam here's a gun
walks over to stage right
Bill: The other guy's got a gun
walks back to stage left
Bill : He knows about the gun!

this is called intelligence?