Deep Background by former CIA official Philip Giraldi

From the May 8, 2006 edition of the American Conservative (typed up by me from the article which is available only from the hard copy or subscription edition at this time):



There are signs that the Bush administration's covert action program against Iran is becoming both more active and more lethal. Twenty-two Iranian government officials were killed and the local governer was severely injured in a March ambush carried out by the Iranian opposition group MEK (Mujanheddin-e Khalq) in the Iranian province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan. MEK was armed and supplied by Saddam Hussein and is on the U.S. terrorism list, but its supporters have been liberated from that potential impediment by individually renouncing the group’s charter, presumably making them ex-terrorists. They have been trained by U.S. Special Forces and are now carrying out Pentagon-directed operations inside Iran, primarily consisting of intelligence-collection missions targeting suspected nuclear production facilities. The MEK, however, also has its own agenda. It supports Iran's Baluchi minority, primarily Sunni Muslims, in their increasingly violent opposition to the central government.



Sources in Rome report that Michael Ledeen is now being surveilled every time he visits Italy. The advocate of " creative destruction," and leading American neoconservative occasionally linked to the forged Niger uranium documents used to justify war in Iraq, has a villa in the hills near Rome and frequently travels to Italy to vacation and for meetings. The surveillance is being carried out by the Italian military intelligence service, known as SISMI, acting under the instructions of the minister of defense, Nicola Pollari. That Ledeen is now regarded as suspicious and is being watched by SISMI is particularly ironic, as he collaborated with Italian military intelligence in the early 1980s, a service for which he reportedly received $100,000. According to one source, the payment made to Ledeen was deposited in a bank in the Bahamas.



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