All’ s Well that End
s Well with Ole Black Dog Saga!
March 9, 2007
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The information obtained from the Ole Black Dog, Irani
an General Ali Resa Asgari, will be invaluable in the discussions on tomorrow’s very important conferences on the future of Iraq in Baghad, which will bring America and
the West face to face with Syrian and Iranian officials.
In our very first episode of the “Ole Black Dog Saga” we included the following two paragraphs:
“[Wherever Iranian Revolutionary Guards General Asquari is today, I hope he is alive and in American hands. His first hand knowledge of the most secret workings of the inner Iranian military mechanism would be a fantastic intelligence
coup by the United States.
I am also hopeful he defected to the West because he feared reprisals by his Iranian superiors for
his part in the recent failure to smuggle five kidnapped U.S. officers into Iran.
A defector will, of course, normally give more information than a kidnapped one.]”
It appears my hopes have been realized, as indicated by the following two articles extracted from two UK sources by the Jerusalem Center for Public Information Daily Alert, March 9, 2007.
Begin Article 1 from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert
Iranian General Defects with Hizbullah’s Arms Secrets
Richard Beeston and Michael Theodoulou (Times-UK)
Ali Resa Asgari, 63, a general in the elite Revolutionary Guards and former deputy defense minister, appears to have defected to the U.S., taking with him a treasure trove of his country’s most closely guarded secrets.
Several sources confirmed reports that Asgari had fled to the West, the first senior Iran official to defect since the revolution 27 years ago.
“It means for the first time, Hizbullah’s adversaries may have accurate estimates of stockpiles, weapons types, even perhaps placement and tactics,” said Nicholas Noe, the author of a forthcoming book on Hizbullah.
Begin Article 2 from Jerusalem Center for Public Afairs Daily Alert
A Coup for Foreign Intelligence
Tim Butcher (Telegraph-UK)
Asgari was the main Iranian point man in Lebanon in the 1980s and 1990s when Iran help found, fund and run Hizbullah and there can be few better sources on how it receives weapons and support from Iran.
He could also provide crucial information about a Hizbullah attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983 in which eight of the CIA’s top regional specialists, including the CIA’s Near East director Robert Ames, were among those who died, something that explains America’s continued reluctance to downgrade its listing of Hizbullah as anything but a terrorist group.
In spite of Iran’s efforts to play down his significance, Asgari’s defection represents a genuine coup for foreign intelligence.
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