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Report: the Report of the Commission on Intelligence on WMDs:
Source: Report to the President on WMDs, p. 80-108
Biological Warfare Finding 1 The DIA's Defense HUMINT Service's failure even to attempt to validate Curveball's [a code-named human source who later proved unerliable] reporting was a major failure in operational tradecraft. Biological Warfare Finding 2 Indications of possible problems with Curveball began to emerge well before the 2002 NIE. The analysts' resistance to any information that could undermine Curveball's reliability suggests that the analysts were unduly wedded to a source that supported their assumptions about Iraq's BW programs. Biological Warfare Finding 3 The October 2002 NIE failed to communicate adequately to policymakers both the Community's near-total reliance on Curveball for its BW judgments, and the serious problems that characterized Curveball as a source. Biological Warfare Finding 4
Beginning in late 2002, some operations officers within the regional division of the CIA's Directorate of Operations that was responsible for relations with the liaison service handling Curveball expressed serious concerns about Curveball's reliability to senior officials at the CIA, but these views were either (1) not thought to outweigh analytic assessments that Curveball's information was reliable or (2) disregarded because of managers' assessments that those views were not sufficiently convincing to warrant further elevation. Biological Warfare Finding 5 CIA management stood by Curveball's reporting long after post-war investigators in Iraq had established that he was lying about crucial issues. Biological Warfare Finding 6 In addition to the problems with Curveball, the Intelligence Community--and, particularly, the Defense HUMINT Service--failed to keep reporting from a known fabricator out of finished intelligence on Iraq's BW program in 2002 and 2003.
- Topic: War & Peace
- Headline: Belief in Iraqi BWs was based on one unreliable person
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Democrats
participating in 05-WMD-04 |
| Charles Robb |
s1s | VA Democratic Senator (Former) | |
Republicans
participating in 05-WMD-04 |
| John McCain |
s1s | AZ Republican Sr Senator | |
Independents
participating in 05-WMD-04 |
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Republicans:
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