Bruce Schneier has some interesting speculation about the Ahmad Chalabi telling the Iranians we'd broken their codes story:
"Whatever the methodology (in breaking the codes), this would be an enormous intelligence coup for the NSA. It was also a secret in itself. If the Iranians ever learned that the NSA was reading their messages, they would stop using the broken encryption machines, and the NSA's source of Iranian secrets would dry up. The secret that the NSA could read the Iranian secrets was more important than any specific Iranian secrets that the NSA could read. ..."
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