Bill Murray (ex-CIA)
Bill Murray served for thirty years in the CIA including postings as station chief in the Lebanon, Pakistan and Paris.[1]
Department of Homeland Security
In 2007, Murray was part of a team of ex-CIA consultants led by Charlie Allen which examined the intelligence wing of the Department of Homeland Security.[2]
Fereidoun Mahdavi
Murray has identified 'Ali', an Iranian source supported by Congressman Curt Weldon as Fereidoun Mahdavi, associate of Manucher Ghorbanifar.
- Bill Murray, the former CIA station chief in Paris, said that, after interviewing Mahdavi on several occasions and investigating his claims, the CIA determined he was lying. Mahdavi never gave the CIA anything specific about Iran's weapons capability, terrorist activities or any of the other charges.
- "He peddled the same stories to several other governments," Murray said. "He is a fabricator."
- The CIA set up a clandestine channel of communications for Mahdavi, which he was supposed to use for talking with the agency and for sending information, said several former intelligence officials. He used it only twice, once to repeat vague information he had already supplied, and a second time to try to persuade the CIA to participate in his plot to overthrow the Iranian government.[3]
External Resources
- Profile: Bill Murray - Cooperative Research
References
- ↑ DHS Intelligence Chief Reaches Out to CIA Friends, by Jeff Stein, CQ Homeland Security, 9 March 2007.
- ↑ DHS Intelligence Chief Reaches Out to CIA Friends, by Jeff Stein, CQ Homeland Security, 9 March 2007.
- ↑ Lawmaker's Book Warns of Iran, by Dana Priest, Washington Post, 9 June 2005.
