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PAPER: '60 MINUTES' DUPED; IRAN DEFECTOR SAID TO BE FRAUD!
The CIA and the FBI have concluded that an Iranian defector in
Turkey who claimed on CBS's 60 MINUTES be a former Iranian
intelligence official and terrorist mastermind -- is an impostor
who lacks basic knowledge of Iran's intelligence apparatus!
"He has been lying about lots of stuff,'' a senior U.S. official
tells Sunday's WASHINGTON POST, according to publishing sources.
MORE
In his interview with the CBS News program' a week ago, the
defector identified himself as Ahmad Behbahani and claimed to
have been in charge of assassinations and terrorist operations
for the Iranian government.
Lesley Stahl claimed the man had documentary evidence that Iran
was behind the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Scotland, that
killed 270 people and the 1996 attack on the Khobar Towers
housing complex in Saudi Arabia that took the lives of 19 U.S.
military personnel.
As a result of the June 4 60 MINUES broadcast, the defector's
tale made headlines around the world.
"But after a series of debriefing sessions with the defector at
an undisclosed location in Turkey, counterterrorist experts from
the CIA and the FBI have concluded that he is not Ahmad Behbahani
and that, at 32 years old, he could not possibly have
masterminded terrorist operations dating to the bombing of Pan Am
Flight 103," the POST's Vernon Loeb has learned. The blowup may
once again cause complete embarrassment for CBS and 60 MINUTES.
The program's executive producer Don Hewitt was forced to
apologize for running a bogus story about heroin smuggling in
1998.
The story was based on a British documentary that said Colombia's
Cali drug cartel had a new heroin smuggling route to London.
Legal experts and TV producers later determined that locations
had been faked and actors paid to portray various people in it.
"We felt obligated to lay it all out in detail and ask you please
accept our apology," Hewitt said to viewers.
"We were taken in."
And just a few weeks ago, Lesley Stahl dared to warn about the
perils of Internet news!
During a panel discussion at the Newspaper Association of
America's annual convention in New York, Stahl said she feels a
"sense of doom" about a coming media world where journalists will
have to be newsgatherer, writer, editor, and camera operator all
at once.
"What journalists will have to be are one-man bands," she said.
"When are they going to gather information? When are they going
to make that third phone call? I find that distressing, but
that's the way it's heading."
How dare Ms. Stahl not make that extra phone call to make sure
her Iranian defector story was straight! Developing...
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