CIA Spy Confesses: My Mission Was to Infiltrate Iranian Intelligence Ministry
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A CIA Spy has confessed in a televised interview on the Iranian television on Sunday night that he was on a mission to infiltrate the Iranian Intelligence Ministry.
The operative, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, said he joined the US Army in 2001 and underwent decade-long intelligence training.
He added that he was sent to the US-run Bagram Air Base in eastern Afghanistan and given access to classified intelligence before flying to Tehran.
Hekmati, of Iranian origin, who was born in the southwestern US state of Arizona, said he intended to win the confidence of the Iranian intelligence apparatus with the information he had been given by the agency.
"It was their (the US Central Intelligence Agency's) plan to first burn some useful information, give it to them (the Iranians) and let Iran's Intelligence Ministry think that this is good material," he said.
Iran says its networks, tasked with monitoring the activities in the Bagram base, had learned about Hekmati there and thwarted the operation.
A CIA Spy has confessed in a televised interview on the Iranian television on Sunday night that he was on a mission to infiltrate the Iranian Intelligence Ministry.
The operative, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, said he joined the US Army in 2001 and underwent decade-long intelligence training.
He added that he was sent to the US-run Bagram Air Base in eastern Afghanistan and given access to classified intelligence before flying to Tehran.
Hekmati, of Iranian origin, who was born in the southwestern US state of Arizona, said he intended to win the confidence of the Iranian intelligence apparatus with the information he had been given by the agency.
"It was their (the US Central Intelligence Agency's) plan to first burn some useful information, give it to them (the Iranians) and let Iran's Intelligence Ministry think that this is good material," he said.
Iran says its networks, tasked with monitoring the activities in the Bagram base, had learned about Hekmati there and thwarted the operation.
This is not unprecedented in the Islamic Republic. On May 30, members of a CIA espionage and sabotage network were arrested by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry.
On November 24, Iran once again announced the arrest of a dozen CIA spies, who were found to have been on a mission to sabotage the country's nuclear facilities and other important compounds.
Another CIA espionage network with 12 members was busted in Iran and Lebanon earlier this month.
Source: News Agencies, edited by moqawama.org
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