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CIA claims it brought Iranian scientist Amiri to US over security concerns | The Iranian nuclear scientist, Shahram Amiri, who returned to Tehran this week was one of two CIA informants whisked out of Iran last year by the agency amid concerns that Tehran had discovered they were providing secrets
to Washington. According to The Washington Post, US officials have revealed that
before his abrupt departure for Iran , Amiri was among half a dozen sources that
had provided information to the CIA from inside Iran 's nuclear program and was
subsequently resettled in the United States . Financial firms outside the CIA's
control had given sources reward packages including the five million dollars set
aside for Amiri. Current and former U.S. officials have claimed that Amiri was
among a small network of spies inside Iran that had provided intelligence about
nuclear programs and sites for several years. Some were brought out because they
wanted to relocate, but Amiri and a second informant were pushed to leave Iran
after indications that they had come under suspicion by the country's Ministry
of Intelligence and Security. "There was fear of exposure, one had gotten sloppy
in his communications with the agency, but even when told of the exposure risk
remained in Iran longer than we thought prudent," a former senior U.S. intelligence
official familiar with the cases, said. Earlier, Amiri had alleged that he was
drugged and abducted by the CIA to the United States and was subjected to coercive
interrogations on Iran 's nuclear program. U.S. officials, however, have denied
Amiri's assertions, saying he defected voluntarily and is concocting stories to
enable his return to a country he betrayed. A former US official also said that
when Amiri was resettled in the United States , it was his decision not to try
to bring his family. |
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