I believe that the dude in Iran is ex-FBI, not CIA and was working as a "private investigator" so presumably not actually on contract for US intelligence services (though it can certainly be tough to tell). Iran also denies that they have him and there is speculation that he might be in Afghanistan or Pakistan. So, yeah, lot's of unknowns.
Given that he was held for something like a year before they sent out the video, he very well may have been pretty much broken and incapable of sending along much of any information even if he had ever received any training in the first place. Judah On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:19 AM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Interesting. > > I have another question...military/intelligence week of curiosity for me I > guess.....they just released that video of a former CIA guy who is being > held in Iran. In this day and age, when prisoners are routinely put on TV > to be flaunted, are our operatives being trained in methods of passing > information to the US should they ever be taken captive? > > I mean, couldn't they at least be taught to give some hints about their > location, captors, etc. through simple hand gestures or other signs during > these videos? > > Just sort of thinking about that kind of stuff as I watch this > video.....anyone know? > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> Lets also not forget that the drone that crashed isn't quite state of >> the art. The CIA and Pentagon know that it was a matter of when not if >> a drone on the Afghan Iran border would malfunction. Besides the >> pictures shown by the Iranians suggest a mockup rather than the actual >> drone. What most likely happened is that the drone crashed and broke >> up. But to satisfy the propaganda people, they made a mockup of it to >> show to the world. >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:08 PM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com >> >wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> aren't these the same drones that have rootkit malware installed by >> persons >> >> unknown, that the military cannot remove, and cannot figure out what it >> >> does, and cannot figure out how it got there? >> >> >> > >> > Drones sure seem like fun when it's us flying them around some other >> > country somewhere, firing missiles willy nilly. But how much fun would it >> > be to have hundreds of these things flying around Texas or California or >> > South Dakota....operated by some hack job in Iran, blowing up whatever he >> > thought might be fun, like some twisted video game? >> > >> > This is something everyone has known for decades...once you start to >> remove >> > the human element from all things warfare...things don't necessarily get >> > better. >> > >> > The Joint Chiefs should be forced to watch The Terminator until this >> sinks >> > in. >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:344368 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
