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...intelligence teams and coordinated its findings with them, partly as a way to get around CIA caution in the region. Bamford reveals that the original source of the spurious allegation that Saddam harbored "mobile biological-weapons labs" did not come from the brother of a top aide to Ahmad Chalabi whose code name was Curveball, but from an Israeli tip going back to 1994. Bamford quotes anonymous CIA agents who say that they suspected that much of the hard-liners' intelligence on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was bogus but there was pressure from within and without to shut...
...meetings with him were very brief." PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, on his relations with Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi political figure and former Administration favorite, now being investigated for allegedly leaking U.S. intelligence to Iran...
...that was responsible for launching the separate leaks probe, which Chalabi's backers see as just the latest in a long series of attempts by the agency to undermine him. Richard Perle, a Bush defense adviser who has met with White House officials to plead Chalabi's case, says, "The CIA has disliked Chalabi for a long time and has concocted a case against him." Chalabi has described the accusation that he gave intelligence to Iran as "nonsense...
...Chalabi did betray U.S. secrets to Iran, it appears he was playing a brazen double game. U.S. commanders in Iraq have said the information Chalabi's organization has passed on to the U.S. since the war began has been helpful. According to a March assessment by a high-ranking military intelligence officer reviewed by TIME, the I.N.C. provided about 50 reports a month last year of "actionable" intelligence, which, among other things, led to the arrest of former leaders of Saddam's regime. The officer stated that the I.N.C. was "directly responsible for saving the lives of numerous" U.S. troops...
...CHALABI FLAP: Inside the secret plan to dump an old ally...