Saturday, December 10, 2011

CIA versus Hizbullah in Lebanon

This is explosive.  Jeffrey Feltman, who was in Beirut this week, was asked by the press about the exposure of CIA station in Lebanon.  He refused to comment.  No wonder.  The story is way too embarrassing for the US government and its intelligence operations.  When I read that Hasan Nasrallah personally summoned the three CIA agents within the Party that he would be able, without any pressure even, to extract all the information that the party needs.  Sure enough: yesterday, Hizbullah's TV, Al-Manar, aired reports about the CIA work in Lebanon.  It was most explosive and contained so many details that it has compromised for a time CIA work in Lebanon.  The reports even spoke about financial corruption on the part of CIA handlers: how they make the agents sign receipts for amount of money exceeding what the agent was receiving (implying that the CIA handlers were pocketing the difference).  The reports even exposed the full names of the CIA station members in Lebanon and gave away their diplomatic covers.  They identified a building in the US embassy compound which houses the CIA station.  But Hizbullah still insist that Robert Baer is still involved in CIA work in Lebanon without providing evidence.  I think that the party may feel a grudge against Baer because he admitted after he resigned from the CIA that his chief goal was capturing or killing `Imad Mughniyyah.