[Marxism] New Book on CIA

["Craven, Jim" <JCraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

New Book Reveals Secret War Operations

 
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Monday, January 2, 2006 

WASHINGTON - A new book on the government's secret anti-terrorism operations 
describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to 
obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam Hussein's 
nuclear program.

Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA's 
behalf. The book said her brother was stunned by her questions about the 
nuclear program because - he said - it had been dead for a decade.

New York Times reporter James Risen uses the anecdote to illustrate how the CIA 
ignored information that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction. His 
book, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration" 
describes secret operations of the Bush administration's war on terrorism.

The major revelation in the book has already been the subject of extensive 
reporting by Risen's newspaper: the National Security Agency's eavesdropping of 
Americans' conversations without obtaining warrants from a special court.

The book said Dr. Alhaddad flew home in mid-September 2002 and had a series of 
meetings with CIA analysts. She relayed her brother's information that there 
was no nuclear program.

A CIA operative later told Dr. Alhaddad's husband that the agency believed her 
brother was lying. In all, the book says, some 30 family members of Iraqis made 
trips to their native country to contact Iraqi weapons scientists, and all of 
them reported that the programs had been abandoned.

In October 2002, a month after the doctor's trip to Baghdad, the U.S 
intelligence community issued a National Intelligence Estimate that concluded 
Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program.

In the book, which quotes extensively from anonymous sources, Risen said the 
NSA spying program was launched in 2002 after the CIA began to capture 
high-ranking al-Qaida operatives overseas, and took their computers, cell 
phones and personal phone directories.

The CIA turned the telephone numbers and e-mail addresses from the material 
over to the NSA, which then began monitoring the phone numbers - in addition to 
anyone in contact with the telephone subscribers, the book said, saying this 
led to an expansion of the monitoring, both overseas and in the United States.

The book said the NSA does not need approval from the White House, the Justice 
Department or anyone else in the Bush administration before it begins 
eavesdropping on a specific phone line in the United States.

In another chapter on a "rogue operation," the book said a CIA officer 
mistakenly sent one of its Iranian agents information that could be used to 
identify virtually every spy the agency had in Iran. The book said the Iranian 
was a double agent who turned over the data to Iranian security officials.

The book said the information severely damaged the CIA's Iranian network, and 
quoted CIA sources as saying several of the U.S. agents were arrested and 
jailed.

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