Name: Robert Baer. Nationality: American. A former officer at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) which he still has relation with. "You were assigned to track him, can we say that there was a kind of US intelligence failure to reach Imad Moghniyeh?" "Yes it was an utter failure". This was a confession by a former CIA officer whose agency has failed for more than two decades to assassinate the commander and the martyr Imad Moghniyeh. This failure is added to a history of a secret confrontation between the resistance's security in Lebanon and the CIA with all its capabilities that are supported by organizations, countries and systems. The CIA wanted for this confrontation to have a bloody start. In March 8, 1985 a huge blast caused by a car bomb took place near Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlullah's house in Beir al-Abed in Beirut's southern suburb. During the previous 20 years, Hezbollah never trusted the US intelligence. The party accused the CIA of endangering Lebanon. Hezb! ollah has always described the US embassy in Awkar as the den of spies. This is no longer an accusation, after Hezbollah brought to light a number of spies who were recruited by the embassy. This blow was followed by a US official leak which admitted that 12 US agents had fallen into a security ambush by Hezbollah. Lebanese media also quoted another CIA officer, Phillip Giraldi, as saying that Hezbollah has recruited double agents in the agency station in Lebanon. He added that these agents helped in
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