Yesterday, Iran’s intelligence agency announced the arrest of another CIA spy. He is reported to be of Iranian descent who had experience working for the Military Intelligence Division (MID) of the US Army in military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, and was tasked with carrying out a complex intelligence operation and infiltrating the Iranian intelligence apparatus.This new arrest came in the wake of Iran’s capture of CIA’s prize RQ-170 Sentinel stealth intelligence pilotless aircraft on December 4. The capture of intact world’s most sophisticated drone is a bonanza not only for Iran but also for its allies like China and Pakistan which are being threatened by Washington with new wars.
This is not the first time Iran has arrested CIA spies. In May 30 members of a CIA espionage and sabotage network were arrested by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry.
On November 24, Iran once again announced the arrest of a dozen CIA spies who were reportedly on a mission to sabotage the country’s nuclear facilities and other important compounds. Another CIA espionage network with 12 members was busted in Iran and Lebanon in cooperation with the Lebanese Hezbollah.
Former CIA agent Robert Baer has admitted that recent collapse of CIA’s espionage networks in both Iran and Lebanon is a serious blow to US ability to gather intelligence against US-Israel arch adversaries in the Muslim world.
“There’s obviously an espionage war going on against Iran. And to lose an asset in the middle of a war like this, I think it’s catastrophic,” said Robert Baer, who operated in Lebanon in the 1980s.
The world intelligence officials believe that the US and Israel are in the throes of a secret intelligence war against Iran. Iran has arrested, at least, 42 CIA agents this year.
Baer said he believed that Hezbollah identified the CIA network through the process of telephone co-location which analyzes millions of phone calls made in Lebanon each day to discern patterns. Baer believes the CIA had grown weak on tradecraft and in cultivating human intelligence resources over the past decade which had resulted in costly mistakes being made in Lebanon and Iran.
During 2006 Israeli war against Hizbullah, several Israeli intelligence officials had admitted Hizbullah’s superiority in intelligence gathering. On August 25, 2006 – Gary Brecher wrote in the Russian Jewish EXILE magazine.
The funniest bit is the way desperate suckers are trying to spin total defeat of the IDF into some kind of victory. What’s impressed me is that no Israelis are saying that. All the Israeli commentators I’ve read have faced up to the fact that they got hosed. It’s the Americans, totally out of touch with reality and desperate to stay that way, who are finding lame excuses for the IDF, like “Hezbollah didn’t really WIN, since they didn’t wipe out Israel.”
Uprooted Palestinian
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