Bill Gertz
The Washington Times, August 28, 2024
“That detailed IRGC dossier was the ’wrong narrative’ as far as the Obama administration was concerned. It might jeopardize their precious Iran Deal, thus it had to not exist. Therefore, it never existed. Until I went whistleblower right here.”
The CIA suppressed secrets from inside Iran during the Obama administration showing efforts by Tehran to build a nuclear weapon were more advanced than suspected, according to a former National Security Agency counterintelligence official.
The intelligence, however, was blocked to avoid upsetting efforts by the administration and a group of world powers to reach the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, aka the nuclear deal with Iran, said John Schindler, the former NSA counterspy. Mr. Schindler revealed in a report published this week that a pro-U.S. intelligence service more than a decade ago recruited a defector in place with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who had obtained startling secrets regarding the nuclear program. At a conference of security and intelligence experts in central Europe 12 years ago, Mr. Schindler said he was passed a packet of documents from the IRGC mole.
The documents turned out to be a dossier of top-secret IRGC material that contained technical data on Iran’s centrifuge program, the key element of the nuclear program, he stated in the post in his newsletter, “Top Secret Umbra.” The nation that ran the mole was not identified other than specifying that it was not Israel, he said. … [To read the full article, click here]