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...they have made the strategic choice to be a nuclear power, period, and will no longer hold out the weapons program as a thing to be bargained away in talks with the U.S. and its neighbors," says Bruce Klingner, a former deputy chief of the Korea desk at the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence and now a senior fellow at Washington's Heritage Foundation. "They've decided that now is the time to raise, not lower, the walls against foreign interference." (Read "Jailed U.S. Reporters: Business as Usual for North Korea...
Before he joined the group of operatives that broke into the Democratic National Committee office at Washington's Watergate apartment complex, CIA agent Bernard Barker, 92, helped recruit Cuban exiles to support the ill-fated 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion...
...Against that backdrop, the President and his aides have made a three-part case: 1) supporting the opposition could be counterproductive, 2) this is particularly true in light of CIA involvement in the 1953 coup in Iran, and 3) there is little difference between the opposition leader and the current Iranian president. (See pictures of Iran's presidential elections and their turbulent aftermath...
...Given this history, could Iran be the one exception? President Obama thinks so. In making his case, the CIA's involvement in a coup in 1953 has become Exhibit...
...Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower