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German Intelligence Angry Over CIA Criticism of Poor Iraqi Biological Weapons Information
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) “is not amused” by the reported allegations of some CIA officials that the German agency helped to contribute to the war in Iraq by providing false information on Iraq’s alleged biological weapons efforts, the DDP news agency reported yesterday (see GSN, March 29). The BND provided the United States information from an Iraqi defector known as “Curveball” that Iraq was developing biological weapons facilities. “Curveball” and the information he provided, however, have since been deemed to have not been credible — leading to criticism from the U.S. intelligence community, according to DDP. German security sources said the issue is “threatening to turn into a solid row” between Germany and the United States (DDP news agency/BBC Worldwide Monitoring, April 6). Meanwhile, German opposition lawmaker Friedbert Pflueger has demanded that tape recordings of meetings held in 2002 and 2003 between BND chief August Hanning and members of the German Parliament’s foreign policy committee to discuss Iraqi weapons of mass destruction be released, according to the German magazine Der Spiegel. While Pflueger has demanded the release of the tapes to determine whether the federal government misled the parliament, Der Spiegel reported that sections of the tapes dealing with the issue of Iraqi biological weapons appear to be missing (Der Spiegel, April 5, BBC Worldwide Monitoring, April 6).
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