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360 America's CIA Recruited Iran's Nuclear Scientists - By Threatening To Kill Them

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 04/04/2026 18:34 EDT

America's CIA Recruited Iran's Nuclear Scientists - By Threatening To Kill Them

A former U.S. spy spoke to The New Yorker about "years of clandestine work for the C.I.A. — which, he said, had 'prevented Iran from getting a nuke'."

[Kevin] Chalker told me that, as he understood it, the Pentagon had suggested running commando operations to kill key Iranian scientists, as Israel subsequently did. But the C.I.A. proposed recruiting those scientists to defect, as U.S. spies had once courted Soviet physicists. Chalker paraphrased the agency's pitch: "We can debrief them and learn so much mo

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