{"id":195905,"date":"2008-06-06T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/06\/did-iranian-agents-dupe-pentagon-officials\/"},"modified":"2008-06-06T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T22:40:00","slug":"did-iranian-agents-dupe-pentagon-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/06\/did-iranian-agents-dupe-pentagon-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Iranian agents dupe Pentagon officials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there is evidence that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/227\/story\/40080.html\">Iranian intelligence operatives infiltrated the various Iraqi and Iranian exile groups that called for war against Iraq<\/a> in 2002-2003.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The aborted counterintelligence investigation probed some Pentagon officials&#8217; contacts with Iranian exile Manucher Ghorbanifar, whom the CIA had labeled a &#8220;fabricator&#8221; in 1984. Those contacts were brokered by an American civilian, Michael Ledeen, a former Pentagon and National Security Council consultant and a leading advocate of invading Iraq and overthrowing Iran&#8217;s Islamic regime.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Senate report, the Pentagon&#8217;s Counterintelligence Field Activity unit concluded in 2003 that Ledeen &#8220;was likely unwitting of any counterintelligence issues related to his relationship with Mr. Ghorbanifar.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is also Achmed Chalabi and the INC, though they are not mentioned in this article.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon started an investigation of it, but Rumsfeld shut it down when he heard of it.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article, including the hair brained scheme to overthrow the mullahs with &#8230;.. traffic jams.<\/p>\n<p>4 Years ago, Matthew Yglesias suggested, tongue in cheek, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?articleId=7799\">that GW Bush was an Iranian mole<\/a>&#8230;I now wonder how funny it really was&#8230;.I&#8217;m just saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there is evidence that Iranian intelligence operatives infiltrated the various Iraqi and Iranian exile groups that called for war against Iraq in 2002-2003. The aborted counterintelligence investigation probed some Pentagon officials&#8217; contacts with Iranian exile Manucher Ghorbanifar, whom the CIA had labeled a &#8220;fabricator&#8221; in 1984. Those contacts were brokered by an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1062,1102,1034,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-espionage","category-intelligence","category-iran","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}