The early draft of US weapons inspector David Kay in Iraq says that no weapons of mass destruction have been found. Kay has led the CIA-backed search for the past four months. His team of 1,400 searched suspected sites and interviewed Iraqi scientists.

Sections of the report are expected to be released to the public this month. The New York Times reports that the CIA has emphasized that this is just an interim report apparently in an attempt to minimize political fallout from the findings. Kay has already returned from Iraq and is working at CIA headquarters.

Just three weeks ago Secretary of State Colin Powell told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Kay’s report would show people “that there was no question that such weapons exist, existed, and so did the programs to develop one.”