Mossad Chief Held Talks On Iran In U.S. Visit: CIA
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 16:08 EST
WASHINGTON The head of Israels intelligence service paid a secret visit to Washington last week to discuss Irans nuclear program, the CIA director and a top US lawmaker said Tuesday.
Mossad chief Tamir Pardo flew to the US capital to consult with his American counterparts amid speculation over a possible Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, CIA director David Petraeus and Senator Dianne Feinstein revealed at a congressional hearing.
Sensitive trips by intelligence chiefs are usually kept secret but Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, mentioned Pardos visit at a televised hearing as she discussed how Israel views Irans nuclear ambitions.
Well, the vice chairman and I have just met this past week with the director of Mossad, so that is a classified meeting, Feinstein said at the hearing.
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MADem
(135,425 posts)While the trip may not have been contemporaneously advertised, it can hardly be called "secret" at this point. It's a way of underlining these comments, IMO:
The regime of the ayatollahs is the most corrupt in the world, from a moral point of view, Peres told a conference in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.
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(2,198 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)from time to time to share info dont they?