Re: BREAKING NEWS: Iran, 6 world powers reach deal on Iranian nuclear program
Our collection for Iraq wasn't Five Eyes based.
All of it, no. But the majority of our IMINT is Five Eyes, and the HUMINT that we used was mostly via partner nations.
We absolutely
took Israeli intelligence. But, as your own link says:
...Israeli intelligence overplayed the threat posed by Iraq and reinforced the U.S. and British assessment that Saddam Hussein had large amounts of weapons of mass destruction...
They reinforced our own positions, they didn't alter anything that we didn't already think. Every major IC came to the same conclusion about Iraq, and they were all wrong.
US has exclusive collection in the middle east with a silent partnership with Israel.
...... no comment.
Germany's BND had Curveball (the guy you are referring too) but you know who tipped us off on who had him? Mossad because he was a former Mossad source.
Curveball was a
German source. And the Germans kept him, fed us his intelligence, and wouldn't let us talk to him (apparently they made up a story that the guy was virulently anti-American). I can't find anything that said that we were alerted to him as a source of information by the Israelis, but if that is so then you have
one ally (Israel) telling us about a potential source of information and
another ally (Germany) lying to us about that source of information in order to keep us from fully accessing it.
You know the answer to that.. Of course Iranian nuclear scientists were killed by bombs taught by Mossad to the MEK. That the MEK is a org has been around since the Iranian Revolution. In fact helped storm the US Embassy. But this is the kinda of idiocy Israel relies on to stir the pot. Israel lobbied to remove MEK from our Terrorist Org list so Israel can do dirty work in Iran.
Can do
our dirty work. If they were killed by the MEK... :shrug: meh. Firstly, targeting requires collection, meaning that we had a pretty good picture of these guys, secondly, this was a pretty high-profile move; I would be surprised if Mossad just handed this off and didn't exercise overwatch and direction at the
least.
That kind of operation is actually harmful to the US.
On the contrary. Killing a couple of scientists and unleashing a cyber network attack is a far preferable method of slowing down Iran's nuclear advances.
Especially if the US wants a chance to have some kind of normal relation with Iran.
A normal relationship with Iran probably involves some measure of regime change in that country. Because the current regime is
not going to give up its' nuclear program for anything other than a perceived existential threat.