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Curveball Spies, Lies, and the Man Behind Them

Paperback • 2007 • English

Curveball Spies, Lies, and the Man Behind Them: the Real Reason America Went to War in Iraq

By Bob Drogin

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About the book

'Curveball' was the undercover code name given to the mysterious defector whose assertions set the Iraq War in motion. A desperate young Iraqi applying for political asylum in Munich, his first-hand 'evidence' on Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons programme would ultimately be a central plank of the Bush administration's justification in launching an invasion. Trouble was, virtually everything he told the intelligence services was a fabrication. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Drogin, who b...Show more

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ISBN

9780091923020

Publisher

Ebury

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Curveball Spies, Lies, and the Man Behind Them

Format

Paperback

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