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Goss Orders Internal CIA Review on Curveball
The CIA plans to examine claims that former Director George Tenet and other high-level agency officials were warned that the agency’s assessment of prewar Iraq’s alleged biological weapons programs was based on a potentially unreliable source, the New York Times reported today (see GSN, April 7). Tyler Brumheller, former head of agency operations in Europe, told the presidential commission on WMD intelligence that he informed his superiors about concerns over the source, known as Curveball. Tenet and former Deputy Director John McLaughlin said those warnings never reached them. “Director [Porter] Goss has instructed the agency to find out what happened and identify how to keep this from happening again,” said CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise. The review is expected to single out the clandestine service in an effort to determine who was aware that the source’s claims were in doubt and how they acted on that information, according to the Times. A former congressional official said the CIA should examine whether Brumheller and his supervisor, former Deputy Director for Operations James Pavitt, were candid in earlier accounts to investigators. “Goss is right to be looking at this,” the former congressional official said. “He needs to be sure that his directorate of operations doesn’t try something like this, because the stakes are too high” (Douglas Jehl, New York Times, April 8).
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