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From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 6, 2007 3:55:15 PM PDT
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Subject: [SPY NEWS] CIA Veteran Accuses Tenet of 'Lie'
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/060507CIA.htm
CIA Veteran Accuses Tenet of 'Lie'
Newsmax
Sunday May 06, 2007
Former CIA chief George Tenet, author of "At the Center of the Storm:
My Years at the CIA" is getting some tough feedback from his own
people for what he claims in the controversial memoir.
Tyler Drumheller, head of the CIA's Europe Division when he retired in
2004, says Tenet's assertion that he didn't know that a key
intelligence source for the attack on Iraq was bogus is "a lie,"
according to a report by Jeff Stein, Congressional Quarterly National
Security editor.
"This is a defense that he and Harlow cooked up," Drumheller said in
an interview last week, referring to Tenet and his writing assistant,
former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow.
At issue is "Curveball," the code name for an Iraqi refugee in the
hands of German intelligence, who claimed that Saddam Hussein had a
fleet of secret mobile germ warfare laboratories.
CIA officers hadn't been able to question Curveball on their own.
Germany's foreign intelligence agency didn't the agency access.
In the fall of 2002, Drumheller chatted with his German counterpart
about Curveball over lunch in the nation's capital.
In that meeting, the German admitted that he and his own agency had a
lot of doubts about Curveball; that he was very erratic character;
that his reporting couldn't be validated; and that he personally
thought the informant was a fabricator.
In George Tenet's telling, however, he hardly heard about Curveball.
George Tenet claims, "I've since learned that there were debates
between our analysts and our intelligence collectors about the case."
He does admit that he heard that some on the clandestine side "had a
gut feeling" that Curveball wasn't straight, but that was it."
But the very credible Drumheller, a senior intelligence official with
30 years in the spy business, recounted that he immediately told
headquarters about his lunch with his German counterpart – and there
ensued a violent debate within the American agency.
Recounts Drumheller: e-mails were flying — between the CIA's Berlin
station and Washington, between Drumheller and the top aide to Tenet's
deputy John McLaughlin, and between Drumheller and Tenet's chief of
staff — all through the fall.
"And if George wasn't aware of it at that point," in December 2002,
Drumheller says — two months before Secretary of State Colin Powell's
fateful presentation of the (internally) discredited information to
the United Nations — "then he's derelict…"
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