Central Intelligence Agency
Events (1798)
- January 26 or 27, 2003: National Security Council Official Puts Pressure on CIA Official to Include Africa-Uranium Allegation in Powell’s UN Speech
- February 2001: US, German Intelligence Analysts Discuss Curveball’s Veracity
- Mid- and Late 2001: Curveball’s Story Begins to Unravel
- December 2002: CIA Torn Over Curveball’s Reliability
- Late January 2003: Powell Given Curveball’s Information on Iraqi Bioweapons Labs by CIA
- 1999: US Intelligence Agencies Hampered by Poor Intelligence on Iraqi WMDs; Vulnerable to Curveball’s Fabrications
- February 2002: Bush Orders CIA to Find Evidence of Iraqi WMDs
- Early 1982: Defense Secretary Weinberger’s Attempts to Open Arms Deals with Iraq Unsuccessful
- September 2002: German Intelligence Officer Tells CIA Officer that Curveball Is Probably a Fabricator; CIA Officials Dispute Characterization
- 2001: Curveball Has Some Connections to Iraqi National Congress
- September 2002: CIA Completes ‘Iraqi Ties to Terrorism’ Report Based on Al-Libi Interrogation
- July 2001-March 2003: Bush Administration Is Informed that Energy Department Does Not Believe Aluminum Tubes Are Meant for Iraqi Nuclear Program
- Between April 2001 and September 2002: CIA Reports On Aluminum Tubes Fail To Mention that Leading Centrifuge Experts Do Not Believe Tubes Were Meant for Iraqi Nuclear Program
- Late September 2002: CIA Publishes Extensive Report on Aluminum Tubes; Report Later Serves as Basis for October National Intelligence Estimate
- Early October 2002: Bush Receives Intelligence Memo Noting Dissents About Iraqi Aluminum Tubes
- January 2003: Bush Receives Intelligence Memo Saying Iraq ‘Unlikely’ to Attack US Unless Provoked
- January 2003: CIA Doubts Iraqi Government Used Salman Pak to Train Terrorists
- August 1992: Defense Secretary Cheney Publicly Defends Decision Not to Overthrow Hussein, Privately Disagrees
- September 2002: CIA Unable to Find Evidence of Ties Between Iraq and Militant Islamists
- September 2002: US Assertions of Ties Between Iraq and Al-Qaeda Based on Single Guantanamo Prisoner
- Early 2005: Former CIA Oil Analyst Says Invasion of Iraq Driven by Overthrowing Hussein, Oil
- Spring 2002: CIA Reduces Operations and Personnel in Afghanistan
- Early 2002: Most of Task Force 5 Elite Force Is Redeployed from Afghanistan to Iraq
- Late September 2002: CIA Analyst Advises National Security Council Member to Remove Africa-Uranium Claim from Upcoming Speech
- February 2002: DIA Suggests Prisoner Probably Lying about Al-Qaeda Ties to Iraq; but His Allegations Will Be Used in Bush Speech Later
- 2002-2003: CIA Officer Reportedly Never Sees Evidence of WMD in Iraq
- 2002: Senior CIA Operative Instructed by CIA Managers to Falsify His Findings
- June 1992: Iraqi National Congress Formed
- 1992-1996: CIA Provides Support to the Iraqi National Congress; INC Misuses Funds
- August 1996: Iraqi Forces Invade Kurdistan
- May 1991: President Bush Authorizes CIA to Create Conditions for Removal of Saddam Hussein; CIA Hires PR Firm
- March 1995: Chalabi Military Operation against Saddam Hussein Fails
- July 1998: Ahmed Chalabi Asks UN Weapons Inspector to Do Intelligence Work for INC; Reveals His Own Ambitions for Iraq
- January 1996: CIA Ends Its Relationship with Chalabi
- November 1999: Curveball Seeks Asylum in Germany; Tells Germans that Iraq is Developing Biological Weapons Laboratories
- January 2000-September 2001: Curveball Debriefed by German Intelligence
- Early 2001: British Intelligence Tells CIA that It Is ‘Not Convinced’ Curveball is a Reliable Source
- May 2000: CIA Physician Meets Curveball; Performs Blood Test
- Late March 2004-May 2004: CIA Recalls Intelligence Reports Based on Information Provided by Curveball
- Fall 2003: CIA Informs Bush of Problems with Sources for Claims about Iraq’s Alleged Biological Weapons
- June 2003-Late 2003: CIA, German Intelligence Learn the Truth of Curveball’s Background
- Summer 2001: CIA Asks France to Investigate Security of Uranium Mines in France
- Late April or Early May 2002-June 2002: French Intelligence Investigates Purported Uranium Agreement between Iraq and Niger; Determines the Allegation Is Baseless
- Late June 2002: CIA Allegedly Sends France Part of Forged Niger Documents
- Late September 2002: Iraqi Foreign Minister Tells CIA Status of Iraq’s WMD Program; Bush Uninterested in Reports
- Late February 2004: Iraq Survey Group Member Told Not to Include Discussion of Trailers in Report
- Fall 2002: White House Creates New Interagency Task Force to Coordinate Iraq War Planning
- Mid-1980s-late 1990s: ‘Joe T’ Begins Working for CIA
- July 2001: CIA and Jordanian Authorities Confiscate Shipment of Aluminum Tubes Headed for Iraq
- Early Summer 2002: Condoleezza Rice Learns that Energy Department Scientists Disagree with CIA Opinion on Aluminum Tubes