Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S. In CIA 'Intelligence Coup'

By GottaLaff

ABC has this exclusive report about what the CIA is calling a big intel coup:

An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances, has defected to the CIA and been resettled in the United States, according to people briefed on the operation by intelligence officials.

The officials were said to have termed the defection of the scientist, Shahram Amiri, "an intelligence coup" in the continuing CIA operation to spy on and undermine Iran's nuclear program. [...]

"The significance of the coup will depend on how much the scientist knew in the compartmentalized Iranian nuclear program," said former White House counter-terrorism official Richard Clarke, an ABC News consultant. "Just taking one scientist out of the program will not really disrupt it."


No, but we do have someone who is helping us to sort things out, from the inside. The insights must be invaluable, and any information is more than we have now.

Does anyone else feel a sense of enormity about what this administration is accomplishing? It's beginning to become more obvious as times goes on.

Kind of a rush.

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