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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/world/middleeast/iran-iraq-cables.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Takeaways from the Secret Iranian Cables
(New York Times) Karen Zraick - As senior American diplomats met behind closed doors with their Iraqi counterparts, their conversations were routinely reported back to the Iranians. A top political aide to a former speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, for example, was identified as an Iranian intelligence asset. After the American withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, Iranian officials cultivated networks of informants who had once worked for the Americans. One former CIA asset offered to sell Iran the locations of agency safe houses, details of weapons and surveillance training, and the names of other Iraqis who had spied for the Americans.