“Hezbollah’s security is as good as any in the world’s. It’s the best. It’s better than that of the KGB.”-Bob Baer, former CIA operations officer
“Beirut station is out of business.”-unnamed CIA official
Call it a major set back for the United States, in their espionage of Iran and Lebanon. The U.S. media says more than a dozen undercover agents working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were caught. Iranian media say it was at least 30 spies in Iran, and at least 42 in other countries! To show you how incompetent our government has become, CIA officials learned of the espionage catastrophe while watching an Iran Today newscast.
Normally U.S. officials always play down anything reported by the Iranian media, but this time CIA officials say the info presented was hardcore CIA tactics, the Iranians could only know about it because they did indeed catch the undercover spies.
ABC News quoted a U.S. official as calling the situation an “occasional setback”. During the Cold War this would have been a major embarrassment, to say the least!
The Iranian program that reported the U.S. spy disaster is called Iran Today, it’s presented by the news service PressTV. According to Iranian media the arrests of the U.S. paid spies began back in May! In Lebanon, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, announced the arrest of several spies working for the CIA back in June!
You can watch the two Iran Today programs here and here.
But arrests of spies in Lebanon actually go back to April 2009, when hundreds of spies were arrested, many working for Israel’s Mossad. Where was the U.S. media then?
ABC News has been reporting that most of the spies were executed. Since the U.S. is now ‘blind’ in Lebanon and Iran, the only way U.S. officials can assume their undercover agents are dead, is because their actions resulted in the deaths of Iranians and Lebanese.
According to Iranian media, spies who’re not connected to the death of one of their citizens will be sentenced to hard labor. Only if they are found to have been involved with the assassination, or killing, of a citizen would they be executed. If you’ve paid attention to news from Iran you’d know that many Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated in the past few years, as well as many seemingly random explosions that have killed Iranian civilians.
Why is the U.S. media now running with this story? Could it be that the failed FBI sting operation, that was presented as an attempted Iranian assassination of a Saudi Arabian official, has failed to rouse enough support for war with Iran, so now the Obama administration has decided to somehow use this major CIA FAIL to generate support for war with Iran?