Title Curveball : spies, lies, and the con man who caused a war / Bob Drogin.

Publication Info.	New York : Random House, [2007]
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Edition	First edition.
Description	xxi, 343 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-319) and index.
Contents	Munich: 1999-2001 -- Washington: 2002-2003 -- Baghdad: 2003-2004.
Summary	This book answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America's intelligence so catastrophically wrong? Journalist Drogin takes us to Europe, the Middle East, and deep inside the CIA to find the truth. In 1999, a mysterious Iraqi applies for political asylum in Munich, offering compelling testimony of Saddam Hussein's secret program to build weapons of mass destruction. He claims that the dictator has constructed germ factories on trucks. His grateful German hosts pass his account to their CIA counterparts, who give the defector his code name: Curveball. After 9/11, when the Bush administration turns its attention to Iraq, they seize on Curveball's story--even though it has begun to unravel. The CIA allows President Bush to cite Curveball's unconfirmed claims in a State of the Union speech--yet the entire case is based on a fraud. And the proof was clear before the war.--From publisher description.
Subject	Curveball.
	Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Causes.
	Weapons of mass destruction -- Iraq.
	Intelligence service -- United States.
	United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
	Curveball. (OCoLC)fst01672744
	United States. Central Intelligence Agency. (OCoLC)fst00536259
	Intelligence service. (OCoLC)fst00975848
	War -- Causes. (OCoLC)fst01170331
	Weapons of mass destruction. (OCoLC)fst01173041
	Iraq. (OCoLC)fst01205757
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Iraq War (2003-2011) (OCoLC)fst01802311
Chronological Term	2003-2011
ISBN	9781400065837 (alkaline paper)
	1400065836 (alkaline paper)

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