CIA intelligence on Iran fabricated?

No intelligence: how good is the information provided by the CIA on Iran?
by Michael Ross. 
Maclean's August 18, 2008  p29

In response to a recent article by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker suggesting that the Bush administration has requested up to US$400 million for use in covert action against Iran, a highly respected and long-serving Iran expert and decorated veteran of CIA covert operations in the region has commented that the money would be wasted were the CIA to win control of it. "Information provided to the President by the CIA, which he will use to make his decisions, may prove to be false or non-existent," says Ishmael Jones (a pseudonym), whose assignments included more than 15 years of continuous overseas deep-cover service in several rogue nations before he recently resigned from the CIA in good standing.

Blaming the CIA's culture of Soviet-style bureaucracy, risk-averse senior management, and schemes dedicated to enriching current and former employees, Jones claims that CIA human intelligence operations against Iran are designed to feign activity. "Because of the billions of dollars given to the CIA, the CIA will be unwilling to admit it has no intelligence on Iran and will instead be tempted to provide a false assessment of the threat," adds Jones, whose book about his career, The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture, was published last month ...