Who leaked the details of a CIA-Mossad plot against Iran? By Yossi Melman

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19465.htm




06/03/08 "Haaretz" -- -- The Bush administration is prolonging the hunting season against journalists. The latest victim is James Risen, The New York Times reporter for national security and intelligence affairs. About three months ago, a federal grand jury issued a subpoena against him, ordering Risen to give evidence in court. A heavy blackout has been imposed on the affair, with the only hint being that it has to do with sensitive matters of "national security."

But conversations with several sources who are familiar with the affair indicate that Risen has been asked to testify as part of an investigation aimed at revealing who leaked apparently confidential information about the planning of secret Central Intelligence Agency and Mossad missions concerning Iran's nuclear program.

Risen included this information in his book, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration," which was published in 2006. In the book, he discusses a number of ideas which he says were thought up jointly by CIA and Mossad operatives to sabotage Iran's nuclear capabilities.

One of these ideas was to build electromagnetic devices, smuggling them inside Iran to sabotage electricity lines leading to the country's central nuclear sites. According to the plan, the operation was supposed to cause a series of chain reactions which would damage extremely powerful short circuits in the electrical supply that would have led to failures of the super computers of Iran's nuclear sites.

According to the book, the Mossad planners proposed that they would be responsible for getting the electromagnetic facilities into Iran with the aid of their agents in Iran. However, a series of technical problems prevented the plan's execution.

Another of the book's important revelations, which made the administration's blood boil about James Risen, appeared in a chapter describing what was known as Operation Merlin, the code name for another CIA operation supposed to penetrate the heart of Iran's nuclear activity, collect information about it and eventually disrupt it.

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1. failures of the super computers of Iran's nuclear sites...Is this nuts or what?

You don't need supercomputers to enrich uranium. There were no supercomputers when the US, USSR (many others) did it.

[sam sarrha]

2. what i want to know is why they didnt leak the Mossad connection to advance knowledge to 911, maybe

because they did tell the White House, and W let it happen. so the Mossad decided not to leak that failure and just decided to get some great Movie Film of it from a great vantage point on top of a truck.. shot of the century, they were reported for cheering and high 5ing each other after the attack.. they were arrested and quietly deported.