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March 22, 2006
Getting Our Money's Worth Out of the CIA
According to Agence France Presse:
Iraq's foreign minister under Saddam Hussein spied for the CIA before the US-led invasion in 2003 in return for a 100,000 dollar payment, a US television station reported.
In September 2002, Iraq's top diplomat Naji Sabri traded information on Hussein's alleged weapons program for cash in a French-sponsored New York City hotel room meeting, NBC reported, citing intelligence sources. . . .
During the cloak-and-dagger meeting, Sabri told the CIA's middleman that Saddam possessed chemical weapons and wanted a nuclear bomb but needed much more time to build one than the CIA estimate of several months to a year.
He also denied Saddam had any biological weapons.
Sabri's tips were thought to be more accurate than the CIA's own guesses on Saddam's arsenal, NBC said.
So our government paid $100,000 for information on Saddam's alleged WMD and then simply ignored the information they received because it didn't fit into the already established fairy tale. Nice going, guys.
Apparently Get Smart was much closer to the truth than any of us ever imagined, except that Maxwell Smart always managed to nab the bad guys in the end.
Posted by Mike Tennant at March 22, 2006 11:29 AM
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