http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2672317You can't make this shit up.
No other U.S. intelligence official was allowed to meet or interview Curveball -- or even meet regularly with his German debriefers -- before the war.
One result was that the CIA was never sure what Curveball, who spoke English, really was saying in the 112 reports they received from his debriefings.
According to the Senate report, Curveball spoke in English and Arabic to his German interrogators, who then translated his comments into German. The Pentagon intelligence officers working with the Germans then "translated the reports back into English" before passing them to other U.S. intelligence agencies.
"The translation process ... led to some misunderstandings," the Senate report noted. Misunderstandings? Hundreds of American casualties, thousands of Iraqi casualties? And they call me the master of understatement.