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According to the report, for four years, Iranian intelligence had penetrated the FBI itself. 5 Bureau employees, a supervisor, an analyst, a liaison agent, a technical specialist, and an operations coordinator had been recruited by the IRGC to betray American counterintelligence operations. Every significant FBI operation against Iran was compromised. Surveillance targets vanished before raids. Sources were exposed and killed. The Iranians knew every move before it happened.
The report stated that the FBI discovered the penetration through a pattern of failures too consistent to be a coincidence. 18 of 23 Iran operations had failed. 7 sources had been killed or disappeared. Internal investigation code-named MIRROR HUNT and identified the five moles over months of painstaking analysis.
The report said that the investigators discovered something worse: the network was 4 days from exposing CARDINAL, the FBI's most valuable source inside Iran. Twelve years of irreplaceable intelligence. A human being who had risked everything to help America.
In addition, Operation LOOKING GLASS launched simultaneously, with 5 arrests at dawn across three locations. CARDINAL was extracted within hours. The source survived. The network was destroyed. The greatest counterintelligence disaster in Bureau history was prevented.
Watch the video for your perusal.
The report stated that the FBI discovered the penetration through a pattern of failures too consistent to be a coincidence. 18 of 23 Iran operations had failed. 7 sources had been killed or disappeared. Internal investigation code-named MIRROR HUNT and identified the five moles over months of painstaking analysis.
The report said that the investigators discovered something worse: the network was 4 days from exposing CARDINAL, the FBI's most valuable source inside Iran. Twelve years of irreplaceable intelligence. A human being who had risked everything to help America.
In addition, Operation LOOKING GLASS launched simultaneously, with 5 arrests at dawn across three locations. CARDINAL was extracted within hours. The source survived. The network was destroyed. The greatest counterintelligence disaster in Bureau history was prevented.
Watch the video for your perusal.