The day after Gore's self-contradictory pushmipullyu of a speech, Blair presented a 50-page dossier from British intelligence detailing the dangers to the world from Saddam, including evidence of his present possession of "mobile biological weapons facilities".
His explanations did not satisfy some lawmakers who met later in the day with Mr. Ridge on Capitol Hill and who criticized the administration over the decision to issue a stark public warning despite the lack of intelligence detail.
Authorities said that they uncovered word of the plot after intercepting intelligence detailing the strapping of explosives to farm animals to inflict public carnage, according to Mike Omeri, coordinator of the country's National Information Center and director general of the National Orientation Agency.
Later, Fabián Escalante, who served for many years as the head of Cuban counter-intelligence, detailed the case against Morgan, claiming that he had been a longtime American intelligence operative — a "chameleon" — who, in 1960, had attempted to "organize, for the C.I.A., a band of counter-revolutionaries in the Escambray".
But in journalism, as in intelligence, the details matter.
The scientist, Shahram Amiri, described to American intelligence officers details of how a university in Tehran became the covert headquarters for the country's nuclear efforts, the officials confirmed.
He then approached Cuban intelligence, supplying details of C.I.A. operations in Latin America that were passed on to the K.G.B. "He was a valuable source," Mr. Kalugin said.
The report, which cites FBI and other intelligence sources, details horrific rights abuses it claims have been carried out by the KLA, the west's allies in the war against Yugoslavia 11 years ago.
Kenrick's team of secret listeners - German speakers - picked up important intelligence, including details about Hitler's "secret weapons", the V1 and V2s, and a V3 rocket programme near Calais.
