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Bob Drogin

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Bob Drogin, a reporter in the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times, is the author of “Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War,” published by Random House.

Determining the Reliability of a Key CIA Source

After his newspaper story exposed the CIA’s reliance on a con man to determine if Iraq had WMD, a journalist dug deeper to unravel the mystery.
March 15, 2008
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