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Former ISG Scientist Claims Report Was Censored
A former member of the U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group has claimed that the CIA censored his findings to suggest that prewar Iraq might have possessed weapons of mass destruction, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Jan. 26). In an interview with the Australian Broadcast Corp. set to be shown today, Australian microbiologist Rod Barton said he quit the survey group because of the censorship of the unit’s interim report, released in March 2004. “We left the impression that, yes, maybe there were ... WMD out there,” Barton said. “So I thought it was dishonest.” Barton cited as censorship the lack of mention in the interim report of two trailers the CIA had previously believed were intended for use as mobile biological weapons facilities. “They were nothing to do with biology,” he said. “We believed that they were hydrogen generators.” The CIA allowed the inspectors to note their discovery of aluminum pipes, but not that they believed the pipes were probably not for use in centrifuges. Barton said he quit the survey group after the interim report was completed, adding that unit chief Charles Deulfer asked him to return last September. Barton said he returned to the unit and was pleased with its final report (Rod McGuirk, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Feb. 14).
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