Report: Dozens of CIA Spies Working Undercover In Hezbollah And Iran Caught, Feared Executed…
(ABC News) — In a significant failure for the United States in the Mideast, more than a dozen spies working for the CIA in Iran and Lebanon have been caught and the U.S. government fears they will be or have been executed, according to four current and former U.S. officials with connections to the intelligence community.
The spies were paid informants recruited by the CIA for two distinct espionage rings targeting Iran and the Beirut-based Hezbollah organization, considered by the U.S. to be a terror group backed by Iran.
“Espionage is a risky business,” a U.S. official briefed on the developments told ABC News, confirming the loss of the unspecified number of spies over the last six months.
“Many risks lead to wins, but some result in occasional setbacks,” the official said.
Robert Baer, a former senior CIA officer who worked against Hezbollah while stationed in Beirut in the 1980′s, said Hezbollah typically executes individuals suspected of or caught spying.
“If they were genuine spies, spying against Hezbollah, I don’t think we’ll ever see them again,” he said. “These guys are very, very vicious and unforgiving.”
Other current and former officials said the discovery of the two U.S. spy rings occurred separately, but amounted to a setback of significant proportions in efforts to track the activities of the Iranian nuclear program and the intentions of Hezbollah against Israel.
“Remember, this group was responsible for killing more Americans than any other terrorist group before 9/11,” said a U.S. official. Attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 killed more than 300 people, including almost 260 Americans.
The U.S. official, speaking for the record but without attribution, gave grudging credit to the efforts of Iran and Hezbollah to detect and expose U.S. and Israeli espionage.
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Makes me wonder if the State Department fronted them out.
Apparently, Obummer’s “soft power” doctrine isn’t working. Just look at what’s happening in Egypt and Libya. Not good.
Chicken_Shitte:
my thoughts exactly, if not the WH.
i’m sure obozo is convinced the heroic spys, fighting to save AMERICA, “acted stupidly.” guess he’ll have to go over there and apologize.
The WH is dirty so I doubt we’ll hear too much from official WH sources on this.
Part of O’Blameys open and transparent Gubmint except when it comes Solyndra, Brightsource, Corzine, etc.
FLASHBACK:
Third Muslim Brotherhood Figure in Obama White House Identified, Plus in U.S. Navy
http://gulagbound.com/20179/did-obama-actions-put-seal-team-six-in-danger-muslim-brotherhood-in-our-white-house/
gee, if I didn’t know better I’d think we have Mooselimb Brotherhood members on the WH staff ….. oh ! … wait ! …
we do
are there any remaining doubts if al-Hussein Pasha, grand Vizier of Chicago is a fucking muzz ?
anybody ? anybody ?
These guys are dead, if they’re lucky.
Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta should be held personally responsible for this.
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit to find out that the leak came from the WH.
Remember when desk-jockey Valerie Plame was “outed” during the Bush administration? It was front page news for weeks. Let’s see if this real outing even rates a line in the last page of the Demorags media.
I can’t help but wonder why officials are actually confirming spies on behalf of the U.S. I just hope there is some desired benefit to be gained from this.
We will see barry’s hand in this…
And what good purpose is there in spying on these shits?
Since when do we confirm the capture of U.S. spies in the MSM?? WTF is going on here?
@mu1etrain:
PRECISELY!
Why do we even have spies there, given Obama’s “do whatever you want; we don’t care” policy toward Syria, Iran and pretty much every other country in the region (except Israel, of course)?
Additionally:
So we’re all supposed to be upset and concerned about Gitmo peeps, but then these go to their deaths.
@ Hickster…
WTF is going on here?
This is the result of having and anti-American, pro-Muslim adminstration.
@Rufus:
That PLUS a communist infiltrated MSM. This was starting before this administration
sold out by Mr. Husain Barak Soetoro
USA doesn’t generally admit to any spy activity…this story seems to be MORE War propaganda… because why would we just release this kind of information to the public..?
Gilad Shalit was exchanged for 1000 terrorists to clear the decks for conflict
here’s how USA screws that up they will use this to tie Israel’s hands again
treacherous administration
Wow, you guys really are the new Truthers aren’t you.
Pretty much a consensus that if a spy network gets rolled up it has to be the Whitehouse selling them out.
And somehow (unbelievably) using less evidence and logic than the 9/11 Truthers.
Take a small bow nutbags, that is a significant achievement.
dd says: November 21, 2011 at 10:56 pm
“Gilad Shalit was exchanged for 1000 terrorists to clear the decks for conflict
here’s how USA screws that up they will use this to tie Israel’s hands again
treacherous administration”
Hey asshole, maybe give it a day or so and think about your own country and not Israel, while referring to someone else as treacherous, eh?
In 70 years there’s barely 100 stars on that wall and this story is talking about adding 15. Does that even register with you? Fuck Israel and how it effects them.
Tell us some more about this Gilad Shalit. You know, that Israeli I’ve seen mentioned 10,000 times on blogs while I’ve seen not one mention of a name that should be far more familiar to you. Do you know what the name is?
Google search results for this site are 132 to zero for mentions of these 2 names. That is fcuking disgraceful.