TY  - BOOK
AU  - Drogin,Bob
TI  - Curveball: spies, lies, and the con man who caused a war 
SN  - 9781400065837 (alk. paper)
AV  - DS76.79 D76 2007
U1  - 956.7044/3373 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Curveball.
KW  - United States
KW  - Central Intelligence Agency
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-
KW  - Causes
KW  - Weapons of mass destruction
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Intelligence service
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-319) and index
N2  - This book answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America's intelligence so catastrophically wrong? Journalist Drogin takes us to Europe, the Middle East, and deep inside the CIA to find the truth. In 1999, a mysterious Iraqi applies for political asylum in Munich, offering compelling testimony of Saddam Hussein's secret program to build weapons of mass destruction. He claims that the dictator has constructed germ factories on trucks. His grateful German hosts pass his account to their CIA counterparts, who give the defector his code name: Curveball. After 9/11, when the Bush administration turns its attention to Iraq, they seize on Curveball's story--even though it has begun to unravel. The CIA allows President Bush to cite Curveball's unconfirmed claims in a State of the Union speech--yet the entire case is based on a fraud. And the proof was clear before the war.--From publisher description
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007016000-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007016000-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007016000-s.html
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