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CIA “Hobbled” on Iran Snoop and Subversion According to the New York Times, the CIA is “hobbled” on Iran “intelligence” and the spook and covert subversion agency is “severely handicapped in their efforts to assess its weapons programs and its leaders’ intentions,” in other words there is not sufficient emphasis on destroying the country, per the Straussian road map for total war against Islamic society and culture. “Whoever takes the helm of the C.I.A. after the resignation on Friday of Porter J. Goss will confront a critical target with few, if any, American spies on the ground, sketchy communications intercepts and ambiguous satellite images.” Translation: after CIA operation TPAJAX (or AJAX, named after the cleaning powder) deposed Iran’s democratically elected leader Mossadeq in 1953 and the Iranian people suffered decades of brutal rule under the Shah and his sadistic murder and death squad SAVAK (trained by the CIA, MI6, and Mossad), the people of Iran doubled up on their efforts to make sure such intervention did not happen again. According to the neocon Reuel Marc Gerecht, pegged as “a former Iran specialist in the clandestine service of the C.I.A,” when the CIA reports Iran is “5 to 10 years” away from developing a nuclear weapon (never mind conclusive evidence of such a program cannot be found), it really means “an Iranian bomb may be as little as one to three years off.” In short, Bush and crew best get cracking and shock and awe Iran pronto. There’s no time to play footsies with the United Nations. It is interesting to note that while neocons such as Gerecht bemoan the CIA’s supposed incapacity to cover Iran with spies and traitors like a bayou dog covered with ticks, they are convinced Iran is months away from developing a nuke, which they will of course irrationally and immediately use against Israel, a country with 400 nukes on hand, including hydrogen nukes. Call it déjà vu—a repeat of what happened in the lead up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq when the CIA was ignored and the neocons set up their own “cherry picking” lie factory, the Office of Special Plans. In fact, Iran effectively outs CIA agents and operatives. “Operating in the 1980’s from a C.I.A. base in Frankfurt, called Tefran, for Tehran-Frankfurt, C.I.A. officers managed to build a network of agents inside Iran. But Iranian counterintelligence broke up the ring in 1989, former intelligence officers say. In the early 1990’s the Frankfurt base was disbanded, and since then, operations have been directed from C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Va., focusing on areas where there are large numbers of Iranian immigrants, including Los Angeles, the officers said,” continues the Bush Ministry of Propaganda, New York Times division. “The National Security Agency’s efforts to intercept Iranian government communications were hampered in the last two years because Iran learned that the United States had broken its codes and changed them. Satellite photography has provided detailed images of suspected nuclear facilities, but such photographs leave many unanswered questions. Unmanned aerial vehicles are flown into Iran to sniff for gases that would provide clues to nuclear processing, former intelligence officials said.” Iran has a modest hunting record, shooting these expensive UAVs out of the sky and obtaining “information from … plane system and recordings,” according to IranMania. “The problem of the failure to understand Persian culture has been with us since before the revolution in 1979,” Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, director of the Center for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, told the Times. “But its consequences have never been more serious than today.” Of course, for the neocons, this “failure to understand Persian culture” is not important because they are focused on bunker-busting and mini-nuking Iran until it resembles Iraq. As for the CIA, its operations will likely be rolled into the neocon-controlled Pentagon soon after Gen. Michael V. Hayden, deputy director of national intelligence and former commander of the Air Intelligence Agency and director of the NSA, is installed as DCI of the CIA. It should be noted that Hayden “oversaw and has vigorously defended … the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program,” as the New York Times reported on May 6. Hayden also has a poor understanding of the Constituion and the Bill of Rights, even though he has (according to the Times) a “stellar résumé for a spy.” Recall Hayden insisting there is no such thing as probably cause contained in the the Fourth Amendment. In other words, not only should the Iranians worry about the appointment of Hayden to the CIA, but Americans should worry as well. The fact the CIA’s charter states it will not engage in domestic surveillance and subversion operations in America is sort of a long standing joke, as Operation Chaos and other snoop ops have demonstrated over the years. Addendum Wayne Madsen writes about “Hitler Hayden” on his website: “WMR reported extensively on Michael Hayden’s management, scandal, and morale problems at the National Security Agency (NSA). The Bush administration, always anxious to reward misconduct and mismanagement, now wants Hayden to bring his baggage to a decimated Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Based on Hayden’s past at the NSA, Langley should stand by for psychiatric abuse, more Gestapo-like tactics from imported security personnel from Fort Meade, contractor fraud, FBI “sting” set ups like that which befell NSA Iraqi shop SIGINT analyst Ken Ford, Jr.—the author of a SIGINT report that stated reports of Iraqi WMDs were not backed up by intercepts of Iraqi communications—and a general disregard for the law. There will also be harassment by Hayden of retired and former CIA officers who continue to speak out. This was a hallmark of Hayden’s tenure at NSA where he subjected former NSA officers and journalists to whom they spoke to special surveillance from an intelligence database code-named FIRSTFRUITS.” As an interesting aside, “Firstfruits” (Feast of Firstfruits) is mentioned in Leviticus 23:10 and Luke 24:7 and is closely connected to Passover and the biblical land of Canaan was the proper scene of its celebration. However, in spook parlance, the Firstfruits program “was maintained at least until October 2004 and was authorized by then-DCI Porter Goss,” according to SourceWatch. “Firstfruits was authorized as part of a DCI ‘Countering Denial and Deception’ program responsible to an entity known as the Foreign Denial and Deception Committee (FDDC). Since the intelligence community’s reorganization, the DCI has been replaced by the Director of National Intelligence headed by John Negroponte and his deputy, former NSA director Gen. Michael Hayden,” Wayne Madsen wrote in the December 29, 2005, Alternative Press Review.” In addition, beginning in 2001 but before the 9-11 attacks, NSA began to target anyone in the U.S. intelligence community who was deemed a “disgruntled employee.” According to NSA sources, this surveillance was a violation of United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) 18 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. The surveillance of U.S. intelligence personnel by other intelligence personnel in the United States and abroad was conducted without any warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The targeted U.S. intelligence agency personnel included those who made contact with members of the media, including the journalists targeted by Firstfruits, as well as members of Congress, Inspectors General, and other oversight agencies. Those discovered to have spoken to journalists and oversight personnel were subjected to sudden clearance revocation and termination as “security risks.” ---------------------------------------------------
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