Thursday, August 28, 2008

Ron Suskind: "...CIA's Murray discovered that [the Lebanese Journo] had made off with Sabri's $200,000..."

NOT very hard to guess who's the Lebanese journo is!...In Ron Suskind's book (pages 179-182)
"Along the way, [Naji Sabri] had also established a relationship with French intelligence as a paid spy. Though there were surface tensions between the United States and France in those prewar years, the countries' intelligence agencies maintained a good working relationship. CIA's Paris station chief, Bill Murray, was one of the more experienced field bosses in the clandestine service, having run five stations across a thirty-year career...Back in Washignton, Bush, Cheney, and Rice were briefed on the development, and agreed that Sabri seemed very promising indeed. Langley concurred, and coughed up an initial payment for the high-ranking Iraqi: $200,000...Direct contact was too dangerous. Arrangements were made for Sabri to meet with an intermediary--a Lebanese journalist trusted by both sides--while in New York. The intermediary would pose questions on behalf of CIA and then follow up with Murray. The plan went off smoothly: Sabri passed along what he knew, Murray debriefed the journalist in a New York hotel, and for his adress to the General Assembly, Sabri even wore a specific type of suit requested by Murray as a good-faith signal...(p. 179-180) In January, Murray discovered that the Lebanese intermediary had made off with Sabri's $200,000..."(p. 182).

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

sarkis naoum?

G, M, Z, or B said...

thought so at the beginning.
check out his interviews (Sabri's) at that period and you'll easily guess!

Anonymous said...

Get over it. Another MSM journalist trying to score with old information broken on the internet YEARS ago. While he tries to take the credit, without crediting the blogs who did the true work on this material and were reviled for it (not to mention being spyed on and targeted for putting it out to America).

Anonymous said...

You mean you think this journo is a man ???

G, M, Z, or B said...

not necessarily