[0612-2300] THE CURSE OF THE INFORMANT – Companion Dossier (PDF)

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On February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell held up a simulated vial of anthrax before the United Nations Security Council, declaring his evidence ironclad. Behind that public performance lay a house of cards engineered by Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress and anchored by an unvetted defector codenamed Curveball. This declassified Companion Dossier delivers an uncompromising forensic autopsy of the geopolitical deception. Track the flow of fabricated debriefings from a clandestine townhouse in London directly to the West Wing. Through meticulously compiled operational timelines, intercepted cables, technical blueprints of fictional mobile biological weapons laboratories, and suppressed internal CIA warnings from veteran officers like Robert Baer, this dossier reconstructs how unverified rumors became casus belli. You will examine the documented scripts fed to defectors, the institutional cowardice that sidelined allied intelligence objections, and the deliberate manufacturing of pretext for war. Formatted in authentic intelligence dossier style, this document provides researchers and intelligence historians with an indispensable, primary-source anatomy of a catastrophic intelligence failure.