More from Window on the Week:

A Pentagon report provides the startling information that, at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Russians were passing intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Captured documents apparently show that the Russian ambassador in Baghdad leaked U.S battle plans, and that there was also a source inside U.S. Central Command headquarters at Doha, in Qatar. The matter is academic now, but Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice both apply the word “serious” to it, and ask for clarification from the Russians. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, raises the possibility that this is disinformation — complete with forged paperwork — put out by unknown persons to cause mischief. How, one wonders, would a Russian ambassador obtain U.S. battle plans? The Russian minister of defense dismisses the report as rubbish. We are wandering in a wilderness of mirrors, as the great CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton liked to describe the world of intelligence, where reflections look real but don’t distinguish between truth and falsehood. It seems today’s Russians honed their skills when they were Reds under beds.

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