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The CIA in Iran Today: A Realistic Assessment

July 13, 2009 · 1 Comment

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By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
It is hardly surprising to witness the sudden cessation of the US media frenzy that placed Iran under the microspore last month. And yet I believe that now, as the regime in Tehran is redeploying its machinery of social control, is the perfect time to calmly and sensibly provide a rational assessment of what really took place in Iran in June, as well as the US involvement, if any. The CIA’s past shenanigans in Iran are by now widely known and understood –particularly by the Iranians themselves, who, regardless of their feelings toward the present regime in Tehran, are suspicious of collaborating with US agencies. But what is the US involvement in fomenting unrest in Tehran today? More importantly, to what extent can the CIA’s ongoing covert activities in the Middle East be said to have played a role in last June’s seemingly spontaneous popular uprising in Tehran? With this question in mind, I wrote The CIA in Iran Today: A Realistic Assessment, which you can now read in Jeremy Hammond’s Foreign Policy Journal. Here’s a tip: for the CIA’s intelligence directorate  analysts, the recent unrest in Iran was more like 1979 than 1953. Read article →

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  • Robert L O'Dell Jr/Volunteer Intelligence // September 27, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    If we were able to start anything inside Iran then, we should be able to do it again too! This Time we should install some of these Cyber Attack Operations with some of The Best Software we can Produce to Disable their Operations inside their Defenses too! Just at the Right Time too. While we Smuggle in something to Implode their Communications too. This would give them a Double Whammy to Deal with about the Time we Invade and Do the Inevitable to Their Facilities, and Hopefully save their Peoples Lives. This could be done with some Trust worthy Alliances in The Muslim World wherever we may Have them Deployed. Timing would be Critical but would Achieve the Best Results if Possible This will Work to The Hilton! Volunteer Intelligence

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