Reuters report finds ‘negligence, faulty communications’


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New Delhi: A year-long investigative analysis by Reuters reporters Joel Schectman and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, published Thursday, has found a pattern of “negligence” by a “careless” Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in its handling of Iranian informants. The report titled ‘America’s Throwaway Spies’ probes the US intelligence agency’s alleged lack of accountability towards the civilians it hires as part of its network of spies, and traces the “faulty” systems that often lead to their capture. Calling it an “unprecedented firsthand account”, the report claims that many Iranian informants, once caught, were left to fend for themselves. Some of the informants also suspected...