CIA 'ignored Iran nuclear evidence'.7/1/2008 10:11:52 PM A former CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). agent has alleged that the US intelligence agency ignored evidence Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb, a US newspaper has said. The man's lawyer told the Washington Post that the ex-agent was told on "five occasions" to either falsify falsify, v to forge; to give a false appearance to anything, as to falsify a record. his reporting on weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or in the Near East, or "not to file his reports at all". Details of the claims emerged after the ex-agent filed a motion in a US federal court last week asking the US government to declassify de·clas·si·fy tr.v. de·clas·si·fied, de·clas·si·fy·ing, de·clas·si·fies To remove official security classification from (a document). de·clas legal documents which he said described a deliberate suppression of findings on Iran's nuclear programmes that ran against the CIA's view. As a former undercover agent the man has been barred by the CIA from revealing his real name. The motion follows a lawsuit the man filed in 2004 alleging the CIA had fired him after he questioned official CIA doctrine over both Iran and Iraq's nuclear programmes and argued with senior officials when attempting to file his reports contradicting assertions both nations were working on weapons programmes. It also follows the release of an intelligence report last December as part of a US National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran had stopped work on nuclear weapons designs in 2003. Western powers allege that Iran is attempting to build nuclear weapons, however Tehran says its programme is solely for peaceful purposes. Allegations denied Assigned to undercover work in the Persian Gulf Persian Gulf, arm of the Arabian Sea, 90,000 sq mi (233,100 sq km), between the Arabian peninsula and Iran, extending c.600 mi (970 km) from the Shatt al Arab delta to the Strait of Hormuz, which links it with the Gulf of Oman. region, the ex-CIA agent, who is of Middle Eastern origin, recruited an informant informant Historian Medtalk A person who provides a medical history who provided evidence that Iran had ended its research into designing and building a nuclear weapon, the man's lawyer, Roy Krieger, told the Washington Post. However, when he tried to file a report on the findings his attempts were "thwarted" by CIA officials, the documents filed in court alleged. Later two internal investigations were launched over the former operative's conduct, his lawyer said. Krieger told the paper the investigations were a "pretext PRETEXT. The reasons assigned to justify an act, which have only the appearance of truth, and which are without foundation; or which if true are not the true reasons for such act. Vattel, liv. 3, c. 3, 32. to discredit" the former operative and that the man was being punished by being forbidden by the CIA to reveal his name. Paul Gimigliano, spokesman for the CIA, did not comment on the case specifically to the Washington Post but denied any allegation the CIA had suppressed reports. "It would be wrong to suggest that agency managers direct their officers to falsify the intelligence they collect or to suppress it for political reasons," he told the paper. "That's not our policy." A[umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ] Aljazeera.net 2003 - 2008
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