CIA had plenty of evidence Iraq had no illegal weapons, book reveals
By Mark Coultan Herald Correspondent in New York, Sydney Morning Herald; January 5, 2006

THE CIA had evidence from 30 Iraqi weapons scientists that Saddam Hussein had abandoned its weapons of mass destruction programs long before the US invaded, an explosive new book on America's spying operations says. James Risen, national security writer for The New York Times, also says that in 2004 a CIA officer mistakenly sent one of its Iranian agents data that could be used to identify virtually the entire spy network in Iran...