Sources: Chalabi told Iran that U.S. broke its code
Wednesday, June 2, 2004
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- One-time U.S. ally and Iraqi émigré leader Ahmed Chalabi
told an Iranian official that the United States had cracked Iran's secret
communications code, sources confirmed to CNN Wednesday.
The code was invaluable to Washington for intercepting intelligence from
Iran's sophisticated secret service and could have provided information
about Iranian operations inside Iraq and around the world.
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/02/chalabi.iran/index.html
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SELECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources. Are they reliable?
Posted 2003-05-05
They call themselves, self-mockingly, the Cabal-a small cluster of policy
advisers and analysts now based in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans.
In the past year, according to former and present Bush Administration
officials, their operation, which was conceived by Paul Wolfowitz, the
Deputy Secretary of Defense, has brought about a crucial change of direction
in the American intelligence community. These advisers and analysts, who
began their work in the days after September 11, 2001, have produced a skein
of intelligence reviews that have helped to shape public opinion and
American policy toward Iraq. They relied on data gathered by other
intelligence agencies and also on information provided by the Iraqi National
Congress, or I.N.C., the exile group headed by Ahmad Chalabi. By last fall,
the operation rivalled both the C.I.A. and the Pentagon's own Defense
Intelligence Agency, the D.I.A., as President Bush's main source of
intelligence regarding Iraq's possible possession of weapons of mass
destruction and connection with Al Qaeda. As of last week, no such weapons
had been found. And although many people, within the Administration and
outside it, profess confidence that something will turn up, the integrity of
much of that intelligence is now in question.
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030512fa_fact
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