TRANSLATION 1698518
HARMONY DOCUMENT NUMBER
Document ISGQ-2005-00026108.pdf dated July 25 2000 is a report from an Iraqi Intelligence officer to different Iraqi Intelligence Directorates talking about information provided to them from a trusted source that works in the Associated Press (AP). The information is about the formation a newly formed UN weapons inspectors team called UNMOVIC.
So it turns out that the vaunted AP was helping out the lovely Saddam. Quote from this translation: "We were informed from one of our sources (the degree of trust in him is good) who works in the American Associated Press Agency".
In fact, the AP responded directly to this translated document, below.
From the AP
To: All interested parties From: Linda Wagner, Director of Media Relations & Public Affairs, Associated Press, info@ap.org All the information in a handwritten Arabic document from Iraq that some blogs claim to be evidence that an AP employee worked for Saddam Hussein was actually published and distributed worldwide as a wire story by Associated Press two weeks prior to the date on the document.
Since the information in this AP story was distributed worldwide, it would be absurd to consider its substance as espionage. Speculation by the blogs rests entirely on use of the term “one of our sources” in the Iraqi document. However, an AP employee who provides a government official in any nation with a copy of a published AP story is providing public information, not espionage services.
No. This attempt to cover by the Associated Press is lame. They claim that the information related to Saddam by an alleged AP journalistic spy was distributed world wide.
No. The translated document states clearly that the AP source is a "trusted source". Just because the information was, at some point, printed world wide does NOT mean that Saddam wasn't given this information well ahead of the international distribution.
No. Someone at the AP gave this information to Saddam. Why else would the document, which, remember, Saddam and his henchmen never thought would be public knowledge, refer to a "trusted source" at the AP? If this is the case, why wouldn't the document state "according to world wide printed news sources"?
No. Associated Press is playing footsie with the facts. Lots of information is printed that was once upon a time classified. It's all about the timing. Someone at the AP got this information and sent it along to Saddam.
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