An unknown informant's allegations against Mansoor Arrabsiar are reminiscent of "Curveball's" bogus allegations in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. (Ho New / Reuters)-- ...

WASHINGTON — A bitter feud erupted Friday over claims by a presidential commission that top CIA officials apparently ignored warnings in late 2002 and early 2003 that an informant code-named ...

Report shines a light on 'crazy' Iraqi informant. After the occupation of Iraq in spring 2003, the massive U.S. Iraq Survey Group confirmed that Curveball was either hallucinating or lying ...

CIA Director Porter Goss has ordered an internal review to determine why doubts about an informant code-named Curveball, a key source of prewar intelligence on Iraq, were not shared with ...

In other Iraq news — five senior officials from Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service have told the Los Angeles Times that they warned U.S. intelligence authorities that information provided ...

Column; April 5, 2005; Bush Threw Us a ‘Curveball’ Bush Threw Us a ‘Curveball’ A presidential commission’s report shines a light on a “crazy” Iraqi informant.

President Bush and former Secretary of State Collin Powell told the world that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction , including mobile factories for germ warfare. When it turned out to be ...

BERLIN — The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say the Bush administration and the ...

In the long history of U.S. intelligence fiascos, few have been as minutely examined as the "Curveball" episode – the source whose fraudulent claims were largely responsible for the pre-Iraq ...