In a Friday article from the New York Times they outed the CIA’s top spy overseeing the agency’s efforts in Iran.
The article, entitled “C.I.A. Names New Iran Chief in a Sign of Trump’s Hard Line”, Carlos Slim’s blog the New York Times revealed Michael D’Andrea – the man behind the Osama bin Laden hunt – is the head of the CIA’s operations in Iran.
As the Times explained in its report, Iran is “one of the hardest targets” for the CIA to keep tabs on.
“The agency has extremely limited access to the country — no American embassy is open to provide diplomatic cover — and Iran’s intelligence services have spent nearly four decades trying to counter American espionage and covert operations,” the article noted.
So the Times has apparently made it the newspaper’s mission to make the agency’s work much more difficult and far more dangerous by publicly identifying the man in charge of its covert operations in the Persian country. The paper’s rationale? The report’s authors claimed that because the newspaper already outed D’Andrea in 2015 as the official in charge of a CIA drone program, ignoring desperate pleas from the CIA at the time to keep his name secret in order to protect both the agent and overall national security, it was kosher to out him as the agency’s new Iran chief in 2017.
“Mr. D’Andrea remains undercover… The New York Times is naming Mr. D’Andrea” https://t.co/m0W47MYamu
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) June 2, 2017
Iran proxies kidnapped & tortured to death CIA’s Lebanon station chief. Mailed US officials tapes of the torture https://t.co/UPAyiXUf0g https://t.co/m0W47MYamu
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) June 2, 2017
Read the full report here.
