{"id":4170,"date":"2004-05-22T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2004-05-22T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2021-03-21T06:53:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T11:53:30","slug":"alleged-spy-for-iran-reportedly-passed-u-s-government-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2004\/05\/22\/alleged-spy-for-iran-reportedly-passed-u-s-government-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Spy for Iran Reportedly Passed U.S. Government Polygraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Knight-Ridder reporters Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott report in an article published in the <em>Contra Costa Times<\/em> titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040603195832\/http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/mld\/cctimes\/news\/8731245.htm?1c\">&#8220;U.S. probes Chalabi&#8217;s ties to Iran&#8221;<\/a> that U.S. Government officials allege that evidence suggests that Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi&#8217;s security chief, Arras Habib, is an Iranian spy who passed highly sensitive U.S. secrets to Iran&#8217;s intelligence service, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, also known by the Persian (Farsi) acronym, VEVAK. The article cites Francis Brooke, a former subcontractor on a CIA program in northern Iraq, as stating that Habib had passed a counterintelligence-scope polygraph screening examination. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>To qualify [for a Defense Intelligence Agency funded intelligence gathering program], Habib and other Iraqi National Congress figures were required to take polygraph tests that focused almost entirely on his connections with foreign intelligence agencies.<\/p><p>&#8220;He passed,&#8221; said Brooke. He said Habib acknowledged during the screening that as an intelligence professional, Habib has connections with intelligence services in Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knight-Ridder reporters Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott report in an article published in the Contra Costa Times titled, &#8220;U.S. probes Chalabi&#8217;s ties to Iran&#8221; that U.S. Government officials allege that evidence suggests that Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi&#8217;s security chief, Arras Habib, is an Iranian spy who passed highly sensitive U.S. secrets to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,175,513,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-4170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-dia","8":"tag-espionage","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-iraq","11":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}