US intelligence sources have confirmed Iran's assertions that a document published by a British daily about Tehran's nuclear program is a fabrication. "The Rupert Murdoch chain has been used extensively to publish false intelligence from the Israelis and occasionally from the British government"
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Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:01:15 GMT
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Philip M. Giraldi, PhD, is a former CIA counter-terrorism
specialist and military intelligence officer. He was also
foreign policy advisor to Ron Paul during his last
presidential run.
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US intelligence sources have confirmed Iran's assertions
that a document published by a British daily about Tehran's
nuclear program is a fabrication.
According to a former CIA official, US intelligence agents
have found that the document, which was published by the
Times of London on December 14, was fabricated by Israel or
Britain, the Inter Press Service (IPS) reported on Monday.
The IPS report was penned by renowned investigative
journalist Gareth Porter.
Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from
1976 to 1992, told IPS that intelligence sources say the US
had nothing to do with forging the document.
He added, however, that US intelligence sources mainly
suspect Israel of carrying out the forgery, although, they
do not rule out the possibility of the British having played
a part in it.
The Times article said that Iran had been secretly
experimenting on a key component of a nuclear bomb called
the "neutron initiator."
Right after the article was published, Iran's Foreign
Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast dismissed the report
as completely "baseless."
The Times article did not identify the source of the
document, but rather quoted comments by "an Asian
intelligence source," who claimed that his government
believes that Tehran has been working on a neutron initiator
since 2007.
"An Asian intelligence source" is a term some news media use
to refer to Israeli intelligence officials.
The Times story came just before US politicians and their
European allies launched a new round of verbal attacks
against Iran, threatening it with tougher sanctions and the
possibility of an Israeli military attack.
Porter wrote US media reports have left the impression that
US intelligence analysts are confident about the document's
authenticity. This is while it has been widely reported that
they have now had a year to assess the issue.
Although Giraldi's intelligence sources did not reveal all
the reasons that led analysts to conclude that the document
had been fabricated, they did note that the source of the
story itself was suspicious.
"The Rupert Murdoch chain has been used extensively to
publish false intelligence from the Israelis and
occasionally from the British government," Giraldi said.
Other than The Times, Murdoch's press empire includes the
Sunday Times, Fox News and the New York Post, all of which
are known for the strongly pro-Israeli tone they take in
their reports.
Porter added that other than its source, the two-page
document itself included a number of giveaways that also
indicated fraud.
For example, the image of the Farsi-language original of the
document, which was also published by the Times lacked any
confidentiality marking, although the subject of the
document logically put it into the highly classified
category.
Furthermore, the document did not include information about
the issuing office or the intended recipients. It vaguely
referred to "the Centre," "the Institute," "the Committee,"
and the "neutron group."
The ambiguity was in stark contrast with the concreteness of
the plans, which included detailed instructions about
recruiting eight individuals for different tasks for very
specific numbers of hours and for a four-year time frame.
The vagueness can be explained by reasoning that security
markings and identifying information in a forged document
would increase the likelihood of potential errors that could
expose the fraud.
The absence of any date on the document also conflicted with
the rest of the information, which came in detail. The 2007
timeline was only introduced by the Times' unnamed foreign
sources.
A clear motive for suggesting the early 2007 date would be
to appease the Israeli government by discrediting the US
intelligence community's November 2007 National Intelligence
Estimate, which concluded that Iran was not working on a
nuclear bomb.
The biggest reason for discarding the document as fraudulent
is its attempt to suggest past Iranian experiments on
Polonium-210 for use in a neutron initiator, a claim which
was ruled out by the UN nuclear watchdog in a February 2008
report.
This is not the first time that Giraldi has been tipped off
by his intelligence sources on forged documents. He was the
individual who identified those responsible for the two most
notorious forged documents in recent US history.
In 2005, Giraldi identified Michael Ledeen, the extreme
right-wing former consultant to the Pentagon, as an author
of the fabricated letter, which introduced the allegation
that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from Niger.
That letter gave the administration of former US President
George W. Bush the opportunity to claim that Saddam Hussein
had an active nuclear weapons program, an allegation that
was proven completely false following the invasion of Iraq.
Giraldi also identified officials in the "Office of Special
Plans" who worked under Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
Douglas Feith as those who forged a letter, allegedly
written by a Saddam intelligence aide, about an operation to
arrange for an unidentified shipment from Niger.
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Israel arrests nuclear whistleblower
Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:39:05 GMT
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Mordechai Vanunu was jailed as a traitor in 1986 and served
an 18-year sentence after discussing his work as a
technician at Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor with a British newspaper.
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Israeli police have arrested former nuclear assistant
Mordechai Vanunu on charges of having contact with "a number
of foreigners" at a hotel in Jeruselum Al-Quds.
"Vanunu was detained in Jerusalem last night," said Police
spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. "He is suspected of having had
contacts with foreign agents."
A court spokesman said he would be released from jail
Tuesday evening but was ordered to stay under house arrest
through Thursday.
Vanunu has been detained several times for violating the
terms of his parole which ban him from travel or contact
with foreigners.
He served an 18-year sentence in prison after discussing his
work as a technician at Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor with
a British newspaper in 1986.
After his release in 2004, Israel's Supreme Court barred him
from travelling abroad, alleging he has more details on the
Dimona atomic reactor to divulge.
Vanunu however denies he poses a security risk but says he
will pursue anti-nuclear activities and wants to live
abroad.
The restrictions on him have been condemned by international
human rights groups.
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