CIA Operation in Iran Failed When Spies Were Exposed -LAT

[Rose Siding]

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Perle referred to the "terrible setback that we suffered in Iran a few years ago when in a display of unbelievable, careless management we put pressure on agents operating in Iran to report with greater frequency and didn't provide improved communications."

When the CIA's sources stepped up their reporting, "the Iranian intelligence authorities quickly saw the surge in traffic and, as I understand it, virtually our entire network in Iran was wiped out."

Former CIA officials familiar with the matter confirmed portions of Perle's account and provided additional details. But they said the incident occurred in the late 1980s or early 1990s, not "a few years ago," as Perle suggested, and that it was not clear that the informants were exposed because of any pressure from the agency to file reports more frequently.

The CIA declined to comment, but a U.S. intelligence official rejected Perle's criticism of the agency's record in the Mideast as ill-informed and outdated.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cia12feb12,0,5143074.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Hugin]

2. LIAR!

It was their own use of an Iranian Spy in Iraq
that destroyed the Iranian intelligence.

[DenverDem]

3. I perle still alive?

Why?

[Rose Siding]

5. Not only- He still has the ear of Congress! His gripe here is ROFL

snip> He also complained that CIA leaders had not been held accountable and noted that the official who had been in charge of the exposed Iran operation was later promoted.

[maryallen]

9. The nerve of this guy is breathtaking ...

This is the administration that has yet to punish anyone for 911 and Perle has the audacity to hopscotch over that event and bitch about Iran!

Indict Perle and his buddies in the OSP for war crimes!

[UL_Approved]

4. Ahhh, the Hersh story seems more credible now, doesn't it?

This is yet again more proof of "unsanctioned" actions.

All leaders do it, and most deny it.

The U.S. conducts spy missions all the time, all over the world. This is nothing new.

However, the Hersh story about Iran spying now seems a little more possible, doesn't it...

[Career Prole]

6. "...a U.S. intelligence official rejected Perle's criticism..."

...of the agency's record in the Mideast as ill-informed and outdated."

Even when Perle had his nose up the CIA's figurative ass he was ill-informed and outdated because he refused to believe any intelligence which disagreed with his pre-formed conclusions, and in so doing he caused the deaths of a lot more than an intelligence-gathering network in Iran.
Perle's a war criminal. :grr:

[Just Me]

7. "Prince of Darkness" Perle should get the boot!!!

I am sick of him being accepted as an authority on ANYTHING since he is clearly a blood-spending, profitteer!!!

He makes me wanna :puke:

[emad]

8. CIA Operation in Iran Failed When Spies Were Exposed

LATimes

By Greg Miller, Times Staff Writer


WASHINGTON — Dozens of CIA informants in Iran were executed or imprisoned in the late 1980s or early 1990s after their secret communications with the agency were uncovered by the government, according to former CIA officials who discussed the episode after aspects of it were disclosed during a recent congressional hearing.

As many as 50 Iranian citizens on the CIA's payroll were "rolled up" in the failed operation, said the former officials, who described the events as a major setback in spying on a regime that remains one of the most difficult targets for U.S. intelligence.

The disclosures underscore the stakes confronting the CIA and its informants as the United States is under pressure to produce better intelligence on Iran and especially its nuclear activities. The Bush administration has indicated that preventing Iran from obtaining an atomic weapon will be a priority of the president's second term.

Like Iraq before the U.S. invasion in 2003, Iran is regarded as a "denied" territory by U.S. intelligence, meaning that the CIA has no official station inside the country and is largely dependent on recruiting sources outside the Islamic Republic's borders.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cia12feb12,0,5143074.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Dover]

1. Since when does Bushco require real evidence?

They'll either ignore the truth or manufacture it.