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THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ
Suspicion of Chalabi Deception Intensifies
Former administration favorite is believed to have fed disinformation on
Hussein's weapons to intelligence agencies in at least eight nations.
By Bob Drogin
Times Staff Writer

May 23, 2004

WASHINGTON - Ahmad Chalabi, the onetime White House favorite who has been
implicated in an alleged Iranian spy operation, sent Iraqi defectors to at least
eight Western spy services before the war in an apparent effort to dupe them
about Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's illicit weapons programs, current and
former U.S. intelligence officials said.

U.S. investigators are seeking to determine whether the effort - which one U.S.
official likened to an attempt to "game the system" - was secretly supported by
Iran's intelligence service to help persuade the Bush administration to oust the
regime in Baghdad, Tehran's longtime enemy.

Officials said other evidence indicated that Chalabi's intelligence chief had
furnished Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security with highly classified
information on U.S. troop movements, top-secret communications, plans of the
U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority and other closely guarded material on
U.S. operations in Iraq.

The U.S. investigation into the suspected spy operation was a key reason behind
Thursday's raids on Chalabi's Baghdad house and the offices of his Iraqi
National Congress. Several INC members were accused of kidnapping, robbery and
corruption.

Until recently, civilian leaders in the Pentagon touted Chalabi as a potential
postwar leader of Iraq. The former exile leader denounced the raids as
retaliation for his increasingly sharp criticism of U.S. occupation policies and
operations in Iraq. He has not been accused of any crime.

It is not clear whether Iran had any role in the alleged use of the INC to
provide disinformation to the West. U.S. officials say the INC may have been
acting on its own when it sent out a steady stream of defectors from 1998 to
2003 with apparently coordinated claims about Baghdad's purported weapons of
mass destruction.

Because even friendly spy services rarely share the identities of their
informants or let outsiders meet or debrief their sources, it has only in recent
months become clear that Chalabi's group sent defectors with inaccurate or
misleading information to Denmark, England, Italy, France, Germany, Spain and
Sweden, as well as to the United States, the officials said.

As a result, the officials said, U.S. intelligence analysts in some cases used
information from now-discredited "foreign intelligence sources" to corroborate
their own assessments of Hussein's suspected chemical, biological and nuclear
weapons programs. Few of the CIA's prewar judgments have been proved accurate so
far.

"We had a lot of sources, but it was all coming from the same pot," said a
former senior U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"They were all INC guys. And none of them panned out."

A U.S. official confirmed that defectors from Chalabi's organization had
provided suspect information to numerous Western intelligence agencies. "It's
safe to say he tried to game the system," the official said.

A discredited INC defector to Germany who was code-named "Curveball" was the
chief source of information on Iraq's supposed fleet of mobile germ weapons
factories. Another INC defector who provided similar information was deemed a
liar. So was an INC defector who said he had helped build 20 underground germ
weapons laboratories, a now-discredited claim that made headlines when the INC
made him available to some reporters in December 2001.

The CIA was unable to interview two other supposedly senior Iraqis who spied for
British intelligence in Baghdad before the war and claimed to provide detailed
information from within Hussein's inner circle.

Information from both informants has now "fallen apart," one U.S. official said.
"Neither had direct knowledge of what they claimed. They were describing what
they had heard."

The details further tarnish Chalabi's battered image amid allegations that he
shared highly classified information on U.S. operations in Iraq with his
intelligence chief, identified as Aras Karim Habib.

The INC, which began as an umbrella group for Iraqi exiles, has long had an
office in Tehran. Chalabi has repeatedly visited the Iranian capital, and some
critics in Congress have questioned his growing ties to the ruling Shiite Muslim
regime there.

A U.S. official said Chalabi "shared [information] with people who provided it"
to Tehran. "There's real concern he was passing very sensitive, highly
classified information to the Iranians," the official said.

Habib, who was named in an arrest warrant issued during the raid Thursday, is a
fugitive. Chalabi was scheduled to appear today on several American TV talk
shows.

The INC received covert funding from the CIA and about $33 million from the
State Department during the 1990s. The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency
took over the account in 2002, paying the group $335,000 a month over the last
year to gather intelligence. Pentagon officials canceled the contract this
month. A DIA spokesman declined to comment Saturday afternoon.

W. Patrick Lang, a former chief of Middle East intelligence for the DIA, said
Chalabi and his American-backed organization were a clear target for Iranian
intelligence.

"He had complete access to senior people in the Pentagon, and then in the CPA,"
Lang said. "He was a participant in high-level discussions. He was head of
de-Baathification, which put him in place to bar from future office any Sunni
Arab he wants. If you're the Iranians, what more could you want?"

Lang said an alleged Iranian spy in Chalabi's high command had "perfect access
as an agent in place. You couldn't ask for a better operation from the Iranian
point of view."

Hussein's Sunni Muslim-dominated regime invaded Iran's Shiite-led theocracy in
1980, and as many as 1 million people were killed in combat and chemical weapons
attacks by the time the war ended in 1988. The two regimes remained bitter
enemies.

On Friday, members of the House Armed Services Committee challenged Air Force
Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to explain the
raid on Chalabi after so many years of support.

"This seems to be a substantial development in the war, when one of the most
highly paid and trusted advisors may have deliberately misled our nation for
months and years and some of our officials may have swallowed it hook, line and
sinker," said Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.).

Myers defended the intelligence the INC had provided since the Pentagon flew
Chalabi and several hundred armed followers into Iraq in April 2003. He said
some of the intelligence "saved soldiers' lives."

Rep. Timothy J. Ryan (D-Ohio) demanded: "Have we been duped by a con man?"

Myers responded: "I don't have the information that can allow me to make that
judgment. I think that remains to be seen, probably. But I just don't know."

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