[lbo-talk] scritti politi

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 25 08:58:42 PST 2006


from the WaPo's on-line SLATE summary of today's major US newspaper, by Daniel Politi:
>The Washington Post leads with, the Los Angeles Times fronts, and the
New York Times reefers revelations that Russian officials passed on intelligence about U.S. war plans and troop movements to Iraqi leaders in the early days of the American invasion. It seems the Russians might have had a spy inside the U.S. Central Command. ... The Russian spying allegations were included in a 210-page study based on Iraqi documents and interviews with former leaders. Even though some of the information that was passed on was inaccurate, and it is unclear whether the Kremlin approved the operation, if the allegations are true it will almost certainly further strain the relationship between Washington and Moscow. "This is one step short of firing upon us themselves … It's hard to get more unfriendly than that," an analyst tells the LAT. The NYT mentions that since some of the information was false, it raises the possibility that the Russians might have been part of a U.S. military effort to fool Iraqi leaders. <

is this related to the (faux?) Russian spy agency reports that were so notoriously inaccurate during the early stages of the U.S. Heroic Conquest of Iraq three years ago?

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