“Operation Merlin”: Another self-serving CIA project

Setting up the victim! Evidence that these alphabet agencies still NEED OUR CONSENT, otherwise why fake justification. Using DECEIT to obtain CONSENT/AGREEMENT.

News for the Revolution

By Gareth Porter
January 25, 2015
Dissident Voice, January 24, 2015

Jeffrey Sterling

The jury is still out in the trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling for allegedly having leaked the story of “Operation Merlin” – the covert CIA effort to lure Iran into working on phony plans for a key component of a nuclear weapon – to New York Times reporter James Risen.

But “Operation Merlin” itself was also on trial. The CIA was hoping that testimony by prosecution witnesses and a series of declassified CIA cables introduced as evidence would show that Risen’s account was wrong in recounting that the CIA’s human asset “Merlin” had immediately spotted a flaw in the plans to be turned over to Iran that Iranian engineers might be able to spot as well.

The cables reporting the incident and “Merlin’s” testimony both indicate that what “Merlin” saw was not a flaw…

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