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To: kumar who wrote (69049)	1/27/2003 2:07:36 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

but relating a story from 1991 in 2003 dont cut it for me. Why not, Kumar? An Inspection organization that was leaking in 91 would still be leaking in 03. No reason for it to stop. The Inspectors are under enormous pressure from attempts at Bribery and Honey Traps. No reason for them not to succumb. Plus, the top UN people really don't want anything found. To difficult for them to deal with.

To: kumar who wrote (69049)	1/29/2003 3:34:53 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Respond to of 281500

Iraqis know inspection sites: Intelligence shows advance cleanups usatoday.com WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence suspects that Iraq is finding out in advance which sites United Nations weapons inspectors plan to visit, enabling Iraqis to clean up the areas, U.S. diplomatic and intelligence officials said Tuesday. The three officials, speaking in separate interviews on condition of anonymity, said the United States doesn't know exactly how the information is being obtained. One official said Iraq might have bugged the inspectors or found members of the inspection team willing to pass on information. U.S. spy satellites and electronic eavesdropping sensors have collected evidence of Iraqi cleanup efforts as much as two days before inspectors arrived, the officials said. That has led intelligence officials to discount a theory that Baghdad organized rapid, same-day cleanups simply by deducing where the inspectors' motorcades were heading. The possibility that Iraq has penetrated the inspections process is contributing to the CIA's reluctance to share sensitive information with the inspectors, the officials said. Disclosure of the U.S. concerns about Iraqi spy efforts comes as the Bush administration is trying to convince its allies that Iraq is not fully complying with U.N. inspections. The officials' willingness to disclose their concerns may stem in part from the administration's hope that suspicion about Iraqi concealment will translate into support for possible military action against Saddam Hussein's regime. The U.N. inspectors have noticed the Iraqi cleanup efforts, but a spokesman for the U.N. team said they have not raised a concern that Iraq has penetrated the inspectors' schedule. ''Clearly we understand that the Iraqis would have a great interest in finding out our plans,'' said Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the U.N. weapons inspectors. ''We take the best measures we can to protect the data we have and our transmissions.'' President Bush, citing intelligence sources, said in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night that ''thousands of Iraqi security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the U.N. inspectors -- sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors themselves.'' One of the senior U.S. officials said that either Iraq is finding out ahead of time where the inspectors are going or ''they're darn lucky'' about the sites they are cleaning up.