"The CIA would have [given] Iran the actual [nuclear bomb] already constructed for them, but didn't because it wouldn't have been credible for their Russian to have it."Operation Merlin was a CIA operation approved by the Clinton and Bush administrations to provide Iran with a flawed design for "the crown jewels" of a nuclear weapons program, ostensibly in order to delay the alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program.
"The U.S. government lacked evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program and not long after came out with an assessment that such a program did not exist and had not existed for some time. Nonetheless, years of effort and millions of dollars went into trying to slow the program down by a period of months.""The CIA created a design, drawing, and parts list for a Russian nuclear fire set." .. "U.S. scientists spent 9 months building the device from the plans and then proceeded to test it in a lab. Then they introduced multiple 'flaws' into the plans and tested each flaw. Then they gave their flawed plans to their own team of scientists who weren't in on their cockamamie scheme. In five months, those scientists spotted and fixed enough of the flaws to build a fire set and get it to work in a lab.""This was considered a success," despite the fact that the Iran had no active program according to the CIA's own intelligence.
James Risen asserts that Operation Merlin brought Iran significantly closer to nuclear weapons technology because Iranian nuclear scientists noticed flaws in the schematics the CIA's agent provided.
CIA case officer Jeffrey Sterling went to Congress with his story, now accused of having taken his story to James Risen as well. There are periodic updates on exposefacts.org and maybe dropthecharges.org.
Jeffrey Sterling's prosecutors have announced they will not to call reporter James Risen to testify.
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