[PEN-L:30437] Saddam, Spying, and Subversion

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: Saddam, Spying, and Subversion

I sometimes post stuff from Microsoft's SLATE magazine, because they give short and sweet summaries of establisment news outlets. Here, Eric Umansky's summary from a day or so ago is actually a bit subversive (by today's degraded standards):

All of the major US newspapers mention >that Saddam sent a letter to the UN ranting and raving about the U.S's supposedly devious plans. He declared Iraq to be free of "clear of all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and pointed out that the U.S. is just "acting on  behalf of Zionism." In a bit the papers skip, Saddam also said, "Some of  the inspectors went on doing intelligence and espionage work that had nothing to do with the official mandate of the inspection teams." What's interesting about that line is that he's right. According to a March 2, 1999 piece in the Post: "United States intelligence services infiltrated agents and espionage equipment for three years into United Nations arms control teams in Iraq...according to U.S. government employees and documents." <

Jim