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MEDIA MATTERS
Report: Saddam's spies infiltrated Al-Jazeera
Arab network denies allegations
3 employees worked for regime

May 11, 2003
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Iraqi intelligence-agency documents now in the hands of the CIA and Iraqi opposition groups suggest three al-Jazeera employees in Baghdad were also working for Saddam's regime, although the Arab satellite network is denying any wrongdoing, according to a report in the London Times.

Secret police files on al-Jazeera describe the network, which is based in the Gulf state of Qatar, as ''a mobilized instrument of our propaganda.'' The files also suggest ''close cooperation'' between the regime and al-Jazeera executives.

The intelligence-agency documents include files on all three reported agents: two are Baghdad-based employees, the third is a senior Qatar-based executive. His file includes details of a gift of gold to his wife and talks of his efforts to get air time for Iraqi officials.

That same file reportedly contained a note confirming copies of letters sent to al-Jazeera by Osama bin Laden in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, were passed to Baghdad.

Al-Jazeera was accused of bias during the war and outraged the U.S.-led coalition when it broadcast videotaped images of American POWs. The network also broadcast the first pictures of what was thought to be Saddam’s safe house.

The network's office in Baghad was later bombed and one correspondent was killed during the war.