Curveball

Events (26)

• December 18-20, 2002: Tenet Fails to Get ‘Curveball’ on Television after Germans Doubt His Reliability 2002-12-18
• January 27, 2003: CIA Headquarters Warned That Allegations Based on ‘Curveball’ Should Not Be Used in Bush’s Speech 2003-01-27
• 9:01 pm January 28, 2003: President Bush Gives His 2003 State of the Union Address 2003-01-28
• February 5, 2003: German Intelligence Officer Shocked that Powell Used Curveball Info 2003-02-05
• February 5, 2003: Plame Wilson ‘Deeply Upset’ at Powell’s UN Presentation 2003-02-05
• February 5, 2003: Powell Gives Fraudulent Presentation About Iraqi WMDs to UN 2003-02-05
• February 6, 2003: UN Inspectors Find Evidence Disproving Curveball’s Allegations of Mobile Bioweapons Labs 2003-02-06
• February 8, 2003: Weapons Experts Visit Alleged Biological Weapons Site Described by Curveball; Evidence Contradicts Curveball’s Story 2003-02-08
• July 9, 2004: Senate Intelligence Committee Report Finds Widespread Failures in Intelligence Gathering, Analysis in Pre-War Assessments 2004-07-09
• October 22, 2007: Reporter: US Deliberately Used Bad Intelligence for Iraq Invasion; Congress Failed to Question Case for War 2007-10-22
• November 4, 2007: Curveball’s Identity Revealed 2007-11-04
• November 4, 2007: INC Denies Curveball Link 2007-11-04
• November 19, 2007: CIA Finds No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Bomb; White House Ignores CIA In Favor of Unverifiable Israeli Claims 2007-11-19
• 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
• 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
• 1994: Curveball Starts Working for the Chemical Engineering and Design Center
• November 1999: Curveball Seeks Asylum in Germany; Tells Germans that Iraq is Developing Biological Weapons Laboratories
• Mid-March 2004: CIA Interviews Curveball; Confirms that He’s a Fabricator
• June 2003-Late 2003: CIA, German Intelligence Learn the Truth of Curveball’s Background
• January 2000-2003: Some Iraqi Informants Say Iraq Has No Biological Weapons Factories
• Mid-June 2003: David Kay Given Access to CIA’s Prewar Intelligence; Disappointed