FYI: Lawsuit details emerge over CIA Iraq intelligence

[Henk Elegeert]

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Lawsuit details emerge over CIA Iraq intelligence. 01/08/2005. ABC News
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Last Update: Monday, August 1, 2005. 5:03pm (AEST)
Lawsuit details emerge over CIA Iraq intelligence

A former employee said the USA's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was
told by an informant in the spring of 2001 that Iraq had abandoned a
major element of its nuclear weapons program, the New York Times has
reported.

But the newspaper said the agency did not share the information with
other agencies or with senior policy makers.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington in December, the
former CIA officer, whose name remains secret, said that the informant
told him that Iraq's uranium enrichment program had ended years earlier.

He claims the informant told him that centrifuge components from the
scuttled program were available for examination and even purchase, the
report said.

The paper said the officer, an employee at the agency for more than 20
years, was fired in 2004.

In his lawsuit, he says his dismissal was a punishment for his reports
questioning the agency's assumptions on a series of weapons-related
matters, according to the Times.

He also charged that he had been the target of retaliation for his
refusal to go along with the agency's intelligence conclusions.

While the existence of the lawsuit has previously been reported, details
of the case have not been made public because the documents in his suit
have been heavily censored by the government and the substance of the
claims was classified, the paper said.

Several people with detailed knowledge of the case provided the
newspaper with information about his allegations.

The former officer has been accused of having sex with a female contact
and diverting to his own use money earmarked for payments to informants.
He denies both charges, according to the Times.
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