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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (26641)	8/28/2003 9:49:50 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

It looks like the Bushies want to claim that Saddam forged the documents to frame himself? I guess they really know the inteligence level of their supporters. charlotte.com <font color=brown>U.S. misled by bogus pre-war intelligence? Allied agencies investigating possibly fake defectors, data BOB DROGIN Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - Frustrated at the failure to find Saddam Hussein's suspected stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, allied intelligence agencies have launched a major effort to determine if they were victims of bogus Iraqi defectors who planted disinformation to mislead the West before the war. The goal, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official, "is to see if false information was put out there and got into legitimate channels and we were totally duped on it." He added, "We're reinterviewing all our sources of information on this. This is the entire intelligence community, not just the U.S." The review was started after a political firestorm erupted earlier this summer about revelations that President Bush's claim in his State of the Union speech that Iraq had sought to import uranium from Niger was based on forged documents. Although senior CIA officials insist defectors were only partly responsible for the intelligence that triggered the decision to invade Iraq in March, other intelligence officials now fear key portions of the pre-war intelligence may have been flawed. As evidence, officials say former Iraqi intelligence operatives have confirmed since the war that Saddam's regime sent agents disguised as defectors to the West to plant fabricated intelligence. In other cases, Baghdad apparently tricked legitimate defectors into funneling phony tips about weapons production and storage sites. "Then, because they believe it, they pass polygraph tests ... and the planted information becomes true to the West even if it was all made up to deceive us," the senior intelligence official said. </font> TP