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Information provided by Iraqi defectors to US of little value
New York, Sept 29: An internal assessment by the US defence intelligence agency has concluded that most of the information provided by Iraqi defectors who were made available by the Iraqi National Congress was of little or no value, a media report said quoting federal officials briefed on the arrangement.
New York, Sept 29: An internal assessment by the US defence intelligence agency has concluded that most of the information provided by Iraqi defectors who were made available by the Iraqi National Congress was of little or no value, a media report said quoting federal officials briefed on the arrangement.
In addition, several Iraqi defectors introduced to American intelligence agents by the exiled organisation and its leader, Ahmad Chalabi, invented or exaggerated their credee with direct knowledge of the Iraqi
government conventional weapons programme, the officials were quoted by The 'New York Times'
as saying.
The arrangement, Axpayer Funds Supple Group under the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, involved extensive debriefing of at least half a dozen defectors by defence intelligence agents in European capitals and at a base in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil in late 2002 and early 2003, the officials said. But a review early this year by the defence agency concluded that no more than one-third of the information was potentially useful, and efforts to explore those leads since have generally failed to pan out, the officials said.
Bureau Report
The arrangement, Axpayer Funds Supple Group under the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, involved extensive debriefing of at least half a dozen defectors by defence intelligence agents in European capitals and at a base in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil in late 2002 and early 2003, the officials said. But a review early this year by the defence agency concluded that no more than one-third of the information was potentially useful, and efforts to explore those leads since have generally failed to pan out, the officials said.
Bureau Report