The story of Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri is an odd one growing more strange each day. It seems that Amiri disappeared during a trip to Saudi Arabia last year, and then turned up under the protection of the CIA in Arizona.
Reading the story, it is hard to come away not thinking that this guy is a wing-nut, and that however the CIA got him to leave Iran, they were so desperate to have SOMEONE on the inside that they leaped at the chance to have even a tin-hat guy like this.
In the category of "bad decisions", Amiri has decided he'd like to go home to Iran.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Two Great True Spy Tales
From The Browser.
The first is the story of a grand British deception operation in WWII written by the talented Malcom Gladwell (Blink, The Tipping Point). The second, a modern story about a Russian agent in Estonia rising to become one of the most damaging spies in NATO history.
Both are long--but worth reading.
The first is the story of a grand British deception operation in WWII written by the talented Malcom Gladwell (Blink, The Tipping Point). The second, a modern story about a Russian agent in Estonia rising to become one of the most damaging spies in NATO history.
Both are long--but worth reading.
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