1.0 link 220217 <![CDATA[The CIA's Role in Iranian Regime Change]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-thomson/the-cias-role-in-iranian_b_220217.html I would guess that in the past year, there were more regime-change-in-Iran plots floated by members of the intelligence community than there are Iranians.

During that time, research for my novel Once A Spy (Doubleday, 2010) brought me into contact with an array of intelligence community personnel ranging from analysts to CIA Director Michael Hayden. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would estimate their overall enthusiasm for a change of regime was a 9. Among Israeli intelligence officers (who...

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