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CIA Agent Says Bosses Ordered Him To Falsify WMD Reports

HeadlineDec 09, 2004

A senior CIA operative who worked with informants in Iraq asserts that his managers at the CIA asked him to falsify his reporting on weapons of mass destruction before the US invasion and then retaliated against him after he refused. This according to a report in the Washington Post. The undercover operative charges in a lawsuit made public Wednesday that a co-worker warned him three years ago “that CIA management planned to 'get him' for his role in reporting intelligence contrary to official CIA dogma.” Accusations of intelligence officers being pressured on their Iraq findings in the lead-up to the war has long been alleged, but no CIA official has come public before with such claims. According to the undercover agent, the CIA management retaliated against him by launching investigations of allegations that he had a sexual affair with a female asset and that he stole money meant to be pay off for sources. The lawsuit charges those investigations were “initiated for the sole purpose of discrediting him and retaliating against him for questioning the integrity of the WMD reporting … and for refusing to falsify his intelligence reporting to support the politically mandated conclusion.”

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