CIA officials may be guilty of criminal
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CIA officials may be guilty of criminal violations
Ex-agent says CIA wanted false data
By Reuters | August 2, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/02/ex_agent_says_cia_wanted_false_data/
WASHINGTON -- A fired CIA agent, whom a newspaper says told superiors
in 2001 that Iraq had abandoned part of its nuclear program, is
asking the FBI to investigate allegations that the spy agency
dismissed him for refusing to falsify intelligence.
A July 11 letter to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III from the
former agent's lawyer suggests that CIA officials may be guilty of
criminal violations involving intelligence he produced on weapons of
mass destruction in 2000 that contradicted an official agency
position.
The lawyer, Roy Krieger, said his client initially asked the CIA's
inspector general to investigate allegations that CIA officials had
pressured him to alter the intelligence and retaliated when he
refused. But the inspector general rebuffed his request.
''If the CIA is telling him to falsify information, that's
potentially a crime. This merits an investigation, and if the CIA's
not going to do it, the only other place is the FBI," Krieger said.
An FBI spokesman declined to comment.
The letter to Mueller, a copy of which was obtained yesterday,
reiterates allegations in a lawsuit the former agent filed in
December in Washington federal court.
Identified only by the alias ''Doe," the former agent, who worked as
a Near Eastern specialist on counterproliferation issues, accuses the
CIA of improper action on two separate pieces of intelligence.
One was the weapons of mass destruction intelligence the former agent
says he was asked to change in 2000. The other was intelligence
uncovered in 2001 that The New York Times described yesterday as
dealing with Iraq's nuclear program.
The newspaper, citing people it said had knowledge of the case, said
that the second piece of intelligence came from a credible source and
that Baghdad had dropped a major segment of its nuclear program years
before 2001.
But CIA officials refused to distribute the finding to other
intelligence agencies, the Times said.
The case could shed new light on Bush administration thinking ahead
of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, which the White House largely
justified by alleging that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass
destruction and was actively pursuing nuclear arms.
No such weapons have been found in Iraq, and US arms investigators
have concluded that Baghdad abandoned its nuclear-development program
soon after the 1991 Gulf War.
The former CIA agent was not available for comment. Krieger declined
to discuss details of the case.
A CIA spokeswoman also declined to comment.
Krieger's letter to the FBI states that CIA officials accused the
former agent of sexual and financial misconduct in an attempt to
discredit him and retaliate for his refusal to falsify intelligence.
The former agent was fired for unspecified reasons in September 2004,
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Ex-agent says CIA wanted false data
By Reuters | August 2, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/02/ex_agent_says_cia_wanted_false_data/
WASHINGTON -- A fired CIA agent, whom a newspaper says told superiors
in 2001 that Iraq had abandoned part of its nuclear program, is
asking the FBI to investigate allegations that the spy agency
dismissed him for refusing to falsify intelligence.
A July 11 letter to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III from the
former agent's lawyer suggests that CIA officials may be guilty of
criminal violations involving intelligence he produced on weapons of
mass destruction in 2000 that contradicted an official agency
position.
The lawyer, Roy Krieger, said his client initially asked the CIA's
inspector general to investigate allegations that CIA officials had
pressured him to alter the intelligence and retaliated when he
refused. But the inspector general rebuffed his request.
''If the CIA is telling him to falsify information, that's
potentially a crime. This merits an investigation, and if the CIA's
not going to do it, the only other place is the FBI," Krieger said.
An FBI spokesman declined to comment.
The letter to Mueller, a copy of which was obtained yesterday,
reiterates allegations in a lawsuit the former agent filed in
December in Washington federal court.
Identified only by the alias ''Doe," the former agent, who worked as
a Near Eastern specialist on counterproliferation issues, accuses the
CIA of improper action on two separate pieces of intelligence.
One was the weapons of mass destruction intelligence the former agent
says he was asked to change in 2000. The other was intelligence
uncovered in 2001 that The New York Times described yesterday as
dealing with Iraq's nuclear program.
The newspaper, citing people it said had knowledge of the case, said
that the second piece of intelligence came from a credible source and
that Baghdad had dropped a major segment of its nuclear program years
before 2001.
But CIA officials refused to distribute the finding to other
intelligence agencies, the Times said.
The case could shed new light on Bush administration thinking ahead
of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, which the White House largely
justified by alleging that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass
destruction and was actively pursuing nuclear arms.
No such weapons have been found in Iraq, and US arms investigators
have concluded that Baghdad abandoned its nuclear-development program
soon after the 1991 Gulf War.
The former CIA agent was not available for comment. Krieger declined
to discuss details of the case.
A CIA spokeswoman also declined to comment.
Krieger's letter to the FBI states that CIA officials accused the
former agent of sexual and financial misconduct in an attempt to
discredit him and retaliate for his refusal to falsify intelligence.
The former agent was fired for unspecified reasons in September 2004,
=======================
News from CIA Tradecraft:
300 pages of quotes as links to articles on the intelligence
community and national security threats. I recommend the Gadgets
folder.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia_tradecraft/
=================
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In "The CIA Leak", Novak stated this explanation for the two "senior ... Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm - Walter Pincus and Mike ...
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