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Iranian nuke scientist defects to US | An Iranian nuclear scientist has defected to the United States and according to sources in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) will be resettled there. US intelligence officials told
ABC News that nuclear physicist Shahram Amiri, who Iran says disappeared last
year after going to Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage, was part of a long-planned CIA
operation to get him to defect. The CIA contacted the scientist through an intermediary
in Iran who made the resettlement offer on behalf of the United States, according
to ABC. The US officials described the defection as "an intelligence coup". Iran's
Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki has accused Washington of kidnapping Amiri,
though his whereabouts had gone unreported until now. Former White House counter-terrorism
official Richard Clarke, however, said: "Just taking one scientist out of the
program will not really disrupt it." A CIA spokesperson declined to comment on
the ABC report. |
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