The new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran’s nuclear program is out and it seems to conclude that “Iran’s leaders are locked in an increasingly heated debate over whether to move further toward developing nuclear weapons, saying the bite of international sanctions may be sowing discord,” as the Wall Street Journal tells. Given the simple [...]
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Defected, Abducted
Posted in Iran, USA, tagged CIA, fusion reactor, Malek Ashtar University, Shahram Amiri on July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Shahram Amiri, the 31-year old low-level nuclear scientist who had been working at Malek Ashtar University in Tehran, who had disappeared in April on June 3 last year in Madinah while performing umrah, or lesser pilgrimage, and who recently escaped his CIA guardians was probably a double agent. While the Obama Administration, media and the CIA [...]
“We Were Helping Them to Anticipate and Shape the Future”
Posted in Iran, USA, tagged CIA, classified, declassified, democracy, manipulation, NIE, NPT, Thomas Fingar on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Joshua Pollock at ArmsControlWonk.com has pointed today to a lecture by Thomas Fingar, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council, which was given at Stanford University on October 21 where he provides insights as to how the Intelligence Community, by declassifying minor parts of the classified 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities (NIE) may [...]