CIA Gave Iran Bomb Plans, Book Says (LAT)

[kpete]

CIA Gave Iran Bomb Plans, Book Says
By Josh Meyer
The Los Angeles Times

Wednesday 04 January 2006

The nuclear designs were intentionally flawed, but Tehran was tipped off and could have made use of them, the writer contends.
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.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010406K.shtml

[leveymg]

1. Psst. Wanna buy an A-bomb? Low miles, one-owner. We're givin' it away.

So, they thought that line was going to work with people who have been bartering for thousands of years? Sure.:eyes:

[Earth_First]

2. SUPRISE! We figured it out!

Who's brilliant idea was this operation?!

[hootinholler]

3. In 2004?

Dang I though this was a RayGun era thang.

-Hoot

[Terran1212]

4. This is just getting stupid

What the hell is our government doing?