Probably the first of many installments.
In Iraq, [chief Iraq weapons inspector] David Kay had a call from Scooter Libby.
“The vice president wants to know if you’ve looked at this area,â€? Libby said. “We have indications — and here are the geocoordinates — that something is buried there.â€?
Kay went to the mapping and imagery experts on his team. They pulled up the satellite and other surveillance photos of the location. It was in the middle of Lebanon.
“That’s where we’re going next,� joked one of the imagery experts.
At another point Kay got a cable from the CIA that the vice president wanted him to send someone to Switzerland to meet with an Iranian named Manucher Ghorbanifar.
“I recognize this one,� Kay said when he saw the cable. “This one I’m not going to do.�
Ghorbanifar is the guy who gave Oliver North the “great idea” of using money from illegal arms sales to Iran, to illegally arm the “contra” terrorists in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
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