Pakistan General Says CIA Interfering In Iran Affairs

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Pakistan general: US interfering in Iran affairs
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:10:24 GMT

Former Pakistani Army General Mirza Aslam Beig claims the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has distributed 400 million dollars inside Iran to evoke a revolution.

In a phone interview with the Pashto Radio on Monday, General Beig said that there is undisputed intelligence proving the US interference in Iran.

"The documents prove that the CIA spent 400 million dollars inside Iran to prop up a colorful-hollow revolution following the election," he added.

Pakistan's former army chief of joint staff went on to say that the US wanted to disturb the situation in Iran and bring to power a pro-US government.

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http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=98200§ionid=351020401

[cali]

1. show me the documents. Why I should trust a Pakistani general

anymore than any other interested party in all this, is beyond me.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

3. If you doubt

that the CIA is meddling in Iranian, and many other places of course, affairs then you must be able to suspend logic quite readily.

Hey when I read the report it was on a par with 'water is wet' as of course we know the CIA is gettin' it's hands in there. It's what they do.

[azul]

4. The congress is directed to report expenditures to the public

in a timely manner. Whoops, some receipts get classified as secret and never see the light of public scrutiny. Lawbreaking is thus enshrined.

[jeanpalmer]

12. $400 million to destabalie Iran

Late last year (2007), Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership.....

Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year....But the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which involve the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), have now been significantly expanded, according to the current and former officials....

“The Finding was focussed on undermining Iran’s nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine the government through regime change,” a person familiar with its contents said, and involved “working with opposition groups and passing money.”

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_...

Seem like what's going on now would be the perfect way to effect "regime change." In fact, I can't think of a better way to do it/

[YOY]

2. A distinct possibility.

I wouldn't put it beneath them.

Then again the young have been getting pissed in Iran for well over 8 years.

[WeDidIt]

5. Highly doubtful

We don't have a good ground intelligence operation in Iran at present. That's been a big part of the problem over the past 8 years.

[closeupready]

9. yeah, it's not like we ever tried to install and prop up and pro-US Iranian government before.

Oh, wait...

Well, okay, there was the Shah, but we would NEVER do it twice. :sarcasm:

[WeDidIt]

11. Dude, our biggest problem in intelligence has been

the fact that our networks of ground operatives suck, hard.

They took a BIG hit under dubya.

Remember the Valerie Wilson case? A big part of what we learned from Iran was directly linked to her operation.

[C_U_L8R]

6. And so are thousands of people on Twitter

[blindpig]

7. Like you said, water is wet. k&r, n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. "CIA Interfering " ????

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:rofl:

knock me down with a feather!

what a ridiculous idea . .

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. I wonder why he has not released these documents