A former CIA agent has alleged that the US intelligence agency ignored evidence Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb, a US newspaper has said. The man’s lawyer told the Washington Post that the ex-agent was told on “five occasions” to either falsify his reporting on weapons of mass destruction in the Near East, or “not to file his reports at all”. Details of the claims emerged after the ex-agent filed a motion in a US federal court last week asking the US government to declassify legal documents which he said described a deliberate suppression of findings on Iran’s nuclear programmes that ran against the CIA’s view. More
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