coonass wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2:38 pm, nos...@
noway.net (Ralph) wrote:
>> coonass
ricochet.com> wrote:>>> On Jul 10, 3:38 pm, nos...@
noway.net (Ralph) wrote:
>>> To answer your question, why on Earth would CIA offer bogus
>>> information about the provenance of a photo that could be exposed as
>>> bogus by anyone familiar with how to analyze digital photos for
>>> tampering?
>> To make Iran look like they faked it.
>>
>>> Not that I think it's morally outside of CIA's playbook -
>>> it's simply unprofessional to make such an ineffectual pass at
>>> disinformation.
>>> Whereas the good spooks in Iran probably died in the fun and games
>>> after the exile of the Shah.
>> There were no US spooks in Iran when the Shah was overthrown. In the
>> "October Surprise" in 1977 Carter and his CIA director Turner pulled the
>> CIA out of Iran and fired about 800 covert agents. Carter was primarily
>> responsible for the fall of Iran through his heavy handed meddling in
>> Iran's internal affairs.
>
> Ahem. The people we had running elephant cage radars near the Iran-
> Soviet border were, what, insurance salesmen? :-)
We had lots of spooks in Iran. They warned us well in advance of the
coming events.. That was ignored by the state department. We still have
some spooks in Iran, but our trusted ally Israel sold out many of them
we used to have for favor etc. The list of all our Russian and ME spooks
was given to Israel by Jonathon Pollard and all the Intel agents we had
in the ME and Russia were sold by Israel to the highest bidder. These
are facts.. Look them up. We now rely on Israel for our WMD data on Iraq
and now Iran. Its is really nice of them to tell us when and when not to
go to war for Jewish concerns.
