HAARETZ
"Israeli intelligence was involved in editing and creating the sanitized version of information about Iran's recently revealed secret uranium enrichment facility near Qom.
The revelation comes in an interview given by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency Leon Panetta to TIME magazine.
Panetta said that the CIA had known about the facility for at least three years....."
CIA Knew About Iran's Secret Nuclear Plant Long Before Disclosure
TIME
".....In an interesting reversal of roles from the Bush era, the Europeans were pushing for the plant to be outed at once, while the U.S. was more cautious. "The Americans seem to have become more patient as their dossier on Iran has gotten fuller, while the Europeans are getting more anxious about taking care of this matter as they've learned more," says Jacquard.
From then on, the challenge was to keep the information secret. Panetta said he ordered the presentation to be readied "in the event that that information leaked out or that [the Obama Administration] wanted to present it to the International Atomic Energy Agency." British, French and Israeli intelligence agencies were involved in creating the presentation, he added......."
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