'CIA knew Iraq had abandoned nuke plan in 2001'
AFP, Washington
A former employee has charged the Central Intelligence Agency was told by an informant in the spring of 2001 that Iraq had abandoned a major element of its nuclear weapons programme, The New York Times reported yesterday. But the newspaper said the agency did not share the information with other agencies or with senior policy makers. In a lawsuit filed in federal court here in December, the former CIA officer, whose name remains secret, said that the informant told him that Iraq's uranium enrichment program had ended years earlier and that centrifuge components from the scuttled programme were available for examination and even purchase, the report said.
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