Project Brain Drain, $5 Million CIA Bribes And A YouTube-Happy Iranian Nuclear Scientist: What Really Went Down With The Defector? -- Amir Taheri, New York Post
When he arrived in Jeddah in June 2009, Shahram Amiri was just one of the thousands of Iranians who fly to Saudi Arabia each month for out of season pilgrimage to Mecca, Islam’s holiest site. However, the fact that special agents from Prince Miqrin bin Abdul-Aziz’s security services were assigned to keep a close watch on him indicated that the 32 year old, described in his passport as “university researcher,” might be something more than a simple pilgrim.
According to Saudi sources, Prince Miqrin’s men had two reasons to shadow Amiri’s every move. First, they wanted to make sure he was up to no mischief while in the kingdom and, second, they had been asked by their CIA partners to make sure that Amiri had no contact with Iranian agents in Saudi Arabia.
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My Comment: Amir Taheri tries to decipher what really happened .... but the bottom line is that while the CIA has been slack in fully explaining this event .... the Iranian defector's story has some serious holes in it.
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