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Report Ties Dubious Iran Nuclear Docs to Israel
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A report on Iran’s nuclear programme issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories publicising an incendiary charge that U.S. intelligence is underestimating Iran’s progress in designing a “nuclear warhead” before the halt in nuclear weapons-related research in 2003.
That false and misleading charge from an intelligence official of a foreign country, who was not identified but was clearly Israeli, reinforces two of Israel’s key propaganda themes on Iran – that the 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran is wrong, and that Tehran is poised to build nuclear weapons as soon as possible.
But it also provides new evidence that Israeli intelligence was the source of the collection of intelligence documents which have been used to accuse Iran of hiding nuclear weapons research.
The Committee report, dated May 4, cited unnamed “foreign analysts” as claiming intelligence that Iran ended its nuclear weapons-related work in 2003 because it had mastered the design and tested components of a nuclear weapon and thus didn’t need to work on it further until it had produced enough sufficient material.
That conclusion, which implies that Iran has already decided to build nuclear weapons, contradicts both the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, and current intelligence analysis. The NIE concluded that Iran had ended nuclear weapons-related work in 2003 because of increased international scrutiny, and that it was “less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005″.
The report included what appears to be a spectacular revelation from “a senior allied intelligence official” that a collection of intelligence documents supposedly obtained by U.S. intelligence in 2004 from an Iranian laptop computer includes “blueprints for a nuclear warhead”.
It quotes the unnamed official as saying that the blueprints “precisely matched” similar blueprints the official’s own agency “had obtained from other sources inside Iran”.
No U.S. or IAEA official has ever claimed that the so-called laptop documents included designs for a “nuclear warhead”. The detailed list in a May 26, 2008 IAEA report of the contents of what have been called the “alleged studies” – intelligence documents on alleged Iranian nuclear weapons work — made no mention of any such blueprints.
In using the phrase “blueprints for a nuclear warhead”, the unnamed official was evidently seeking to conflate blueprints for the reentry vehicle of the Iranian Shehab missile, which were among the alleged Iranian documents, with blueprints for nuclear weapons.
When New York Times reporters William J. Broad and David E. Sanger used the term “nuclear warhead” to refer to a reentry vehicle in a Nov. 13, 2005 story on the intelligence documents on the Iranian nuclear programme, it brought sharp criticism from David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security.
“This distinction is not minor,” Albright observed, “and Broad should understand the differences between the two objects, particularly when the information does not contain any words such as nuclear or nuclear warhead.”
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Reached later in May, the author of the report, Douglas Frantz, told IPS he is under strict instructions not to speak with the news media.
After a briefing on the report for selected news media immediately after its release, however, the Associated Press reported May 6 that interviews were conducted in Israel. Frantz was apparently forbidden by Israeli officials from revealing their national affiliation as a condition for the interviews.
Frantz, a former journalist for the Los Angeles Times, had extensive contacts with high-ranking Israeli military, intelligence and foreign ministry officials before joining the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff. He and co-author Catherine Collins conducted interviews with those Israeli officials for “The Nuclear Jihadist”, published in 2007. The interviews were all conducted under rules prohibiting disclosure of their identities, according to the book.
The unnamed Israeli intelligence officer’s statement that the “blueprints for a nuclear warhead” – meaning specifications for a missile reentry vehicle – were identical to “designs his agency had obtained from other sources in Iran” suggests that the documents collection which the IAEA has called “alleged studies” actually originated in Israel.
A U.S.-based nuclear weapons analyst who has followed the “alleged studies” intelligence documents closely says he understands that the documents obtained by U.S. intelligence in 2004 were not originally stored on the laptop on which they were located when they were brought in by an unidentified Iranian source, as U.S. officials have claimed to U.S. journalists.
The analyst, who insists on not being identified, says the documents were collected by an intelligence network and then assembled on a single laptop.
The anonymous Israeli intelligence official’s claim, cited in the Committee report, that the “blueprints” in the “alleged studies” collection matched documents his agency had gotten from its own source seems to confirm the analyst’s finding that Israeli intelligence assembled the documents.
German officials have said that the Mujahedin E Khalq or MEK, the Iranian resistance organisation, brought the laptop documents collection to the attention of U.S. intelligence, as reported by IPS in February 2008. Israeli ties with the political arm of the MEK, the National Committee of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), go back to the early 1990s and include assistance to the organisation in broadcasting into Iran from Paris.
The NCRI publicly revealed the existence of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in August 2002. However, that and other intelligence apparently came from Israeli intelligence. The Israeli co-authors of “The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran”, Yossi Melman and Meir Javeanfar, revealed that “Western” intelligence was “laundered” to hide its actual provenance by providing it to Iranian opposition groups, especially NCRI, in order to get it to the IAEA.
They cite U.S., British and Israeli officials as sources for the revelation.
New Yorker writer Connie Bruck wrote in a March 2006 article that an Israeli diplomat confirmed to her that Israel had found the MEK “useful” but declined to elaborate.
Israeli intelligence is also known to have been actively seeking to use alleged Iranian documents to prove that Iran had an active nuclear weapons programme just at the time the intelligence documents which eventually surfaced in 2004 would have been put together.
The most revealing glimpse of Israeli use of such documents to influence international opinion on Iran’s nuclear programme comes from the book by Frantz and Collins. They report that Israel’s international intelligence agency Mossad created a special unit in the summer of 2003 to carry out a campaign to provide secret briefings on the Iranian nuclear programme, which sometimes included “documents from inside Iran and elsewhere”.
The “alleged studies” collection of documents has never been verified as genuine by either the IAEA or by intelligence analysts. The Senate report said senior United Nations officials and foreign intelligence officials who had seen “many of the documents” in the collection of alleged Iranian military documents had told committee staff “it is impossible to rule out an elaborate intelligence ruse”.
*Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy. The paperback edition of his latest book, “Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam”, was published in 2006.
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June 5th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
“…an intelligence official of a foreign country, who was not identified but was clearly Israeli, reinforces ….” LOL, This is why I read this crackpot website, good laughs.
hawg jowels Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Whats the differnce between Obama and dog shit?
Dog shit will eventually turn white and stop stinking>
the next generation Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Dog shit “eventually” stops smelling shit, oBAMA THE TRAITOR /NAZI/MUSLIM EXTREMEST/ANTI CHRIST/FREEDOM HATER/ I CANT BELEIVE HE CLAIMS HE IS A CHRISTIAN,THEN A MINUTE LATER QUOTES FROM THE KORAN, THEN QUOTES FROM THE TALMUD,WHICH IDEOLOGY IS THAT GOD IS NOT CONSCIENCE AND ONLY THRU MAN DOES GOD EXIST MAKING MAN A GOD. THATS ANTI CHRIST SHIT FUCK THE KABALA DANIEL 26 THE MOTHERFUCKER THAT MAKES THE TREATY BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THIER ENEMY “THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD” IS THE WORLD LEADER MENTIONED REVELATION EVERY DAY THIS bOKY oBAMA FUCK IS LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKE THE ANTI CHRIST……………………and I am still waiting for your birth certificate mr.NON president “goerge w bush the 3rd, WHERES JOHN KERRYS Y FFF, WE NEED SOME KETCHUP TO HELP COVER THIS EVER PRESENT TASTE OF SHIT IN OUR SHORT EXISTENCE
greatfrat Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
War on fake terror http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....annel_page fake war on terror
bar abbas = son of god Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Obama the booma and his shia “foes” haha
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m54.....=1&l=e
H8ER14/88 Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
http://podblanc.com/sympathy-for-the-devil
Sam Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Obama is not a muslim, just as george bush is not a christian.
If Obama is a muslim then he is a wahabist.
Sam Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
LOL
Peace be upon the World Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
What do you expect from Iranian news, a truthful article? Why is this piece of garbage “article” even posted here?
Desslok Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Here we go again with the jews. It’s always the jews. I’m beginning to think this website is a covert nazi operation.
Sam Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
The zionists have attemtped to bring down Iran, Syria, and Lebanon and to blaim false flagged operations on Muslims, so I think most Jews are starting to realise just how disheartening it is to be blaimed for something that you dont stand for, or did.
Hmmm Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Zionist is just another annoying label that gets in the way of reality. Let us not even talk about all the countries the U.S. has attempted or succeeded in bringing down. All of the world’s governments are rotten to the core.
Personally, I think all governments along with their creations should be dismantled for the greater good of mankind.
Gwen Towers Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
a jew who doesn’t speak out against zionism is like a german who didn’t speak out against nazism.
Andy Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Blah Blah “Yellow-cake” blah blah blah…. must attack immediately…blah…
June 5th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Too often, I think we conflate religious claims of “Greater Israel,” with endorsements of it’s secular government.
Few question America’s right to exist, based on similar allegations, that the US has technologically enabled it’s ideological enemies.
And, noone supposes that we should grant them a portion of our territory.
Theywontchipme Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
tHERE was talk about making Arizona into Israel in the 40’s…..
Dave Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
4W578I,What kind of garbage is that?
People don’t “conflate religious claims of greater Israel with an endorsement of it’s secular government”,we associate the racist,violent policies of the Israeli government with its tendency towards being hated and attacked!
Nobody Questions America’s right to exist based upon the prevailing religion that is practised here…
Stop “conflating” the security needs of Israel with the needs of America,the two are not synonymous.
Put down that joint will you?
slick nic machiavelli Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
which is one reason why we blindly support israel to our detriment
June 5th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
who cares really this has nothing to do about nothing and there is nothing you or Alex can do about it so get a job and live your life
Theywontchipme Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
u come here why???
Hangman1 Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Because he’s working that COINTELPRO crap all jumped up on Government Cocaine.
Sam Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Wow judging by the comments mosaad seem to be out in force today.
June 5th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Every time we mess with Israel by telling them to give up more land and don’t defend the Holy Land a major catastrophic event happens. Don’t believe me…read Mark or Mike McTerran’s “As America has done to Israel”. There are incidents documented that will blow your mind.
Hangman1 Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Very true.
They have our government’s Zionist Agents by the balls. I, for one, am SICK AND TIRED OF IT.
I’m sick and tired of American kids being sent to the sand to fight a war that has absolutely nothing to do with American Freedom or the spread of Freedom.
I’m sick and tired of seeing American dollars go to prop Israel up.
I’m sick and tired of seeing Israel get away with genocide.
I’m sick and tired of hearing about how we have to defend Israel against any and all enemies. WTF? If the IDF can murder women and children they can fight their own fights.
bigpete Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
you are soo right.
redwhiteandblue forever Reply:
June 8th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
All of your comments about Israel have no basis in reality–your brain has been washed by this anti-semetic website. Israel IS our only ally in the region, and our greatest asset—from their intelligence gathering skills, technological discoveries, to their military and anti-terror ops. As much as Israel needs us, we need them. They represent THE GOOD. I am so sick of all the Israel-bashing/Muslim-loving going on in the media. There is a global jihad/infiltration going on in the west…just open your eyes…EUROPE is going to have a Muslim majority (from run-away immigration) by 2050. It is starting to happen here in the States. If the average American has only 2 babies, and the average Muslim family has 8, just how long do we have until we become a Muslim nation—like Obama said. I am so disturbed by all the brainwashing from MSNBC, Fareed Zacharia, Newsweek, Obama. DHS’s Napolatano just hired a few pro-terrorist Muslim “advisors”–for what??? To hide/tip-off and distract Homeland Security from investigating the radical Muslim converts/homegrown terrorists???? We are on the steady course to losing our country, and Israel knows intimately the agenda of radical Islam. Israel is OUR TRUE FRIEND. If Obama ceases US support of Israel, then THE UNITED STATES WILL FALL.
zobcity1 Reply:
June 11th, 2009 at 11:26 am
You are for the most part for any real purpose, correct.
Israel has always been the scapr goat and lied about for ever.
I lived thru the recent Gaza war. heard every perverted maligning lie from the entire planet media source accus the Israelis defend Me and their own on their land that has been theirs as long as history almost. The PA are a filthy band of beuwins nomadic liars AKA Hamas, Fattah, Al Qeuada.. I lived the truth of what went on and who is really who etc etc.
I heard $ saw more then Europe and USA folks ever though could go on. 7 miles from it , everyday.
June 5th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Thanks Life; good advice. I’m checking out the site right now.
hawg jowels Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
whats long black and stinks?
The unemployment line.
June 5th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Very good site. As soon as my finances allow it i’m ordering some. The $29.99 is well worth it.
June 5th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
The United States of America may have flaws and have made our share of mistakes, but I would never want to live anywhere else, period. There is no denying the dangers that exist in the world we live in, threats from other nations who would give anything to see our country fail and do what they could to make it occur. Hell, look at their record. Like I said, we may have flaws and imperfections, but we are a nation that strives to attain what is the best in mankind and just because of a few blips occur along the way, that by no means erases all the great this country has done. Long Live The United States of America-try to imagine this world without this country; with no one to check Iran, China, Russia, etc. Recognize the bigger picture.
babyhuey Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
You are exactly right.
Equator Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
You call yourself a truth seeker first you need to know that the reason dangers exist in the world and in other countries is because your beloved AMERICA is the one that made them pissed off to begin with. When you understand that then you will see the bigger picture, that no one could care less what we do here as long as we leave them alone. But no we gotta go after them like a watchdog, we gotta claim these guys cannot have nuclear power, we have to invade and “create democracy” in countries that dont want foreign troops on their soil, we gotta keep paying billions of dollars so the Pararsitic nation of Israel can continue to live which no one in the world supports let alone likes except for our government,
Sophia Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Check it out – dangers existed in the world and in other countries for thousands of years before America was born.
Sam Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Yer sure truthseeker, ever heard of hiroshima ?
Sophia Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Sure have. You ever heard of Pearl Harbor?
June 5th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
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June 5th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Tell me why its always a intelligence official from foriegn countries trying to persuade the U.S. to go into Iran ?
Theres no stopping the propaganda, how many times must it be proved Iran does not have a nuke, nor is it trying to build one !
Smoke and Mirrors Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Sophia ask you about Pearl Harbor, why don’t you educate her about the truth?
Sam Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Pearl Harbour was hit, no doubt, every country is guilty of attacking others. That also shows not every nation is perfect. That is what I was intending to show.
So to drop a bomb in retaliation and kill innocent civillians, does not show your countries strength and peacfulness . Just like torturing, one should not heat out the same treatment towards another human. Especially Uranium that is still deforming alot of people in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYQ88GB4zBA
Check out the link and see what became of the children, so before you say the U.S. is perfect take a second look and stop being an ignorant partiot.
June 5th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I don’t believe any of that W.H. PROPAGANDA !!!
June 5th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
i couldnt care less if IRAN has nuclear weapons, i honestly feel the iranian people or government pose no threat to me what so ever,
when was the last time Iran invaded another country ??????????
what really scares me is that America has nuclear weapons!
and has used them TWICE!
and has invaded countless countries
killing millions of people,
now thats scarey!
especially when you take in to acount the people who are in charge of deploying them.
redwhiteandblue forever Reply:
June 8th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
You should be banned from making such stupid comments. Ahmadinejad and the Iranian mullahs are psychos. They WILL COMMIT a SECOND HOLOCAUST AS SOON AS THEY ARE CAPABLE. They have stated publically that they would nuke Israel too many times to count. Did you know that Hitler warned the world about his plan to kill millions of Jews BEFORE he took action? Well, by the time the world acted to stop him, he killed over 6 MILLION JEWS. There are only about 6 MILLION JEWS in ISRAEL today (and only 14,000 worldwide) It is completely UNACCEPTABLE for Obama and the world to not take Iran’s threats against Israel seriously. Obama should help Israel gaurantee that Iran WILL NOT fulfill their warnings. Obviously, Obama is too much of a wimp to act. I HOPE Israel takes out Iran’s nuke capabilities. Obama has broken so many campaign promises already– not allowing Iran to have a nuke is just one of them. Not only is Obama weak, he is a liar, and has no knowledge of Middle East History. And Clinton is a hypocritical, two-faced, Jew-hating bitch.
June 5th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Israel is a theocratic nation run by Radical Extremists.
They orchestrated 9/11 on America in the hopes that Radical Extremist Christians would join them in speech and action.
God Blessed America by degrading Bush and sending the Exorcist Republicans back to Alaska.
Israeli Extremists tried to pull off a false flag in Mexico with the hopes that they would be fooled into joining the Zionist war on Islam.
GOOGLE : MEXICO MOSSAD
redwhiteandblue forever Reply:
June 8th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
can you just stop this anti-israel propaganda? seriously. israel had NOTHING to do with 9/11.
June 5th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Being a conservative all my adult life, I was having a hard time giving up “Water Boarding”, until I realized that 24 was one of my favorites! I stopped listening to Rush L. several years ago, as there was something missing.
Beck is good at what he does. Like all talking heads, he spins what he reports to what the Network dictates. The Networks dictates what The Banksters have laid out for them to march to. It is not a Right/Left issue! … … … Do your due diligence and then call your Congressperson to Vote Yes on HR 1207. Your comment in response to this, will have your thoughts about HR 1207 and why it is or not necessary! Wat Say U? ,Doc
June 5th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
run away from the mark of the beast micro chip implant when they start chipping . iran starts bombing and all the rest to follow ,usa, europe ,israil , china,russia,north korea, a possible all out nuclear and exotic weapons war?the war mongers of the world!
June 5th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
WAR PIGS!
June 5th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
kill all khazar jews NOW
June 5th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
or you will have ww3 and kiss yo ass gutbei
June 6th, 2009 at 5:59 am
disapointed in the level of dialogue here. not even worth bothering with this crap.
June 7th, 2009 at 2:42 am
I just can’t help pointing out that the info-warrior stance downgrading the THREAT from Iran’s nuclear program just looks evil and ignorant. The truth is no country really pretends that they know anything other than what winds up unquestionable by mass media after the bombs are exploded. The truth is people know for years in advance, and others deny up until denial is no longer possible because bombs have exploded. You are either willful participants in a dog pony show or your aren’t. Infowarriors are for the most part as confused as everyone else and I can prove it. if you don’t believe me just ask.
June 7th, 2009 at 8:46 am
North Korea has bombs, why can’t the Iranians? They could probably use them to protect themselves against our bombs on their country. Where does Obama get the words to tell them that they are going to not protect themselves against our huge nuclear capabilities? Is he trying to say that we can handle our bombs, but they can’t? Who would agree with him? He’s like a robber.@
June 7th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Why do all roads seem to lead back to Israel-first dual-nationals?
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