US-Geheimdienste und die Bombe II
„…For three months that summer, U.S. intelligence tried to draft a report on the Shah’s ability to continue to rule Iran. Tried, and failed. The head of the CIA, Admiral Stansfield Turner, decided to shelve it. It was political dynamite. In any event, the Shah was deposed, and a chain of mishaps that began with faulty intelligence was already wrapped around the neck of president Jimmy
The failures of U.S. intelligence are too numerous to cite in a short column – or a long one. Tim Weiner, in the recently published „Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA,“ devotes an entire book, which is almost funny, to such failures. He quotes Donald Gregg, an agent who became an adviser to vice president George H.W. Bush: „The record in Europe was bad. The record in Asia was bad … a great reputation and a terrible record.“
Nearly every incident was a surprise: the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the U.S.S.R., India, Pakistan and North Korea. In the Middle East, the Americans failed in their analysis of trends in Iran, in Iraq and in Libya…“
