Shehram Amiri, the Iranian scientist who American officials say defected to the United States, only to return to Tehran on Thursday, had been an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency inside Iran for several years, providing information about the country’s nuclear program, according to United States officials, NYTimes reported today.
US officials told the WSJ that Amiri "has given significant, original information that's checked out".
The Washington Post reported yesterday that Amiri received a payment of $5 million that was put into U.S. bank accounts to which he had access from Iran.
A U.S. official familiar with the case of the Iranian nuclear scientist says the United States "clearly got the better end of things."
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