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Absolutely unreal. Link below; my emphasis.
"In a clumsy effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, the CIA in 2004 intentionally handed Tehran some top-secret bomb designs laced with a hidden flaw that U.S. officials hoped would doom any weapon made from them, according to a new book about the U.S. intelligence agency.
But the Iranians were tipped to the scheme by the Russian defector hired by the CIA to deliver the plans and may have gleaned scientific information useful for designing a bomb, writes New York Times reporter James Risen in "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration."
You'll note at the article that the CIA spokesperson doesn't flatly deny this happened, only that the book contains "serious inaccuracies".
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-intel4jan04,0,6972451.story?coll=la-home-world
"In a clumsy effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, the CIA in 2004 intentionally handed Tehran some top-secret bomb designs laced with a hidden flaw that U.S. officials hoped would doom any weapon made from them, according to a new book about the U.S. intelligence agency.
But the Iranians were tipped to the scheme by the Russian defector hired by the CIA to deliver the plans and may have gleaned scientific information useful for designing a bomb, writes New York Times reporter James Risen in "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration."
You'll note at the article that the CIA spokesperson doesn't flatly deny this happened, only that the book contains "serious inaccuracies".
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-intel4jan04,0,6972451.story?coll=la-home-world