Kal Korff

PizzaGate CIA Loses Spy Ring in Lebanon against Hezbollah

by Kal K. Korff
Internationally Syndicated Copyright 2011 by Kal K. Korff - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

The word pizza has been dominating the news in the United States lately. First, it was the butt of jokes when Congress declared that pizza is a vegetable as a sop to corporate food lobbyists so that it could remain a part of federally subsidized school kids lunches. Now, the word pizza at least in intelligence circles is associated with death and incompetence, thanks to a series of failures by the American CIA spy agency over its operations in Lebanon and Iran which have been exposed and shut down. Last June, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah publicly declared that an AmericanIsraeli spy ring has been uncovered in Lebanon. Originally dismissed as bluster, Nasrallah was not only telling the truth, he was understating the issue. This newspaper can confirm that at least two high ranking CIA agents were captured by Hezbollah, which then led to a wider ring of informants, as many as 12 now, which have been identified and silenced, perhaps also executed. Iran was able to systematically hunt them down after it busted a previous CIA spy ring in the country near the end of the Bush administration. Its disclosure was inadvertent, yet deadly. An email was accidentally sent by a CIA officer copied to several parties, one of whom was a double agent for the Iranians. As Iran hunted down the individuals identified in the email, they discovered secret hardware which allowed American agents to send secure Internet-based communications from inside the country. This equipment, dubbed Internet in a suitcase, is used to allow dissidents and other assets inside Middle Eastern dictatorships to communicate. It was deployed by the US Department of State to help

oust Egypts Hosni Mubarak and Libyas Muammar Gaddafi, and has been used for years in Iran. After shutting down the earlier CIA spy ring, Iran and Hezbollah initiated a new counterintelligence program using software to track mobile phone calls, carefully looking for suspicious transmission patterns. After months of careful analysis, sources have told this newspaper that Iran and Hezbollah were able to determine that various meeting places mentioned repeatedly in very short phone calls were likely locations for spies and informants. One of them was Pizza Hut in Beirut. The CIA was also careless in using the same terms, words like pizza. While the CIA has had success in some of its operations trying to stop Iran from developing its rogue nuclear bomb, like the Stuxnet virus it jointly deployed with Israel, it has also suffered some humiliating losses. Former CIA Director Leon Panetta has vaguely alluded to the debacle the agency now faces. Before he became Secretary of Defense, he told the media that the CIA was losing basic tradecraft skills, and was suffering. 1.0v1 Nov 23, 2011 Kal K. Korff is an officially accredited internationally known author, columnist and investigative journalist.

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