The CIA burned him. Failed three polygraphs. And they kept letting him back in
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The CIA burned him. Failed three polygraphs. And they kept letting him back in
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A man who failed three polygraphs, was formally declared an intelligence fabricator, and still brokered a fifty-million-dollar arms shipment that never left the port - it feels like a scandal crafted for fiction. What kept senior officials on three continents calling Manucher Ghorbanifar despite admissions that he fabricated an assassination plot and ran covert channels through his phone?
In this episode, we trace the arc of Ghorbanifar’s career from SAVAK trainee to exile broker, how his charm and detailed fabrications shaped headlines and operations, and the unanswered question at the center: why did agencies keep trusting a man who repeatedly lied?
Person: Manucher Ghorbanifar
Date of birth: May 9, 1945
Event: Cosmos arms shipment - $50,000,000 cargo loaded in Eilat
Case: Fabricated 1981 Libyan assassination story (admitted in 1986)
Status: Declared an intelligence fabricator by the CIA; failed three polygraphs
- The Cosmos cargo was valued at $50,000,000 and was loaded at the Israeli port of Eilat but never moved.
- Ghorbanifar failed three separate polygraph tests administered by the CIA.
- In 1981 Washington Post stories alleging Libyan hit squads were later admitted by Ghorbanifar in 1986 to have been fabricated.
- By 1984 the CIA had issued a formal burn declaring him an intelligence fabricator.
- He was born May 9, 1945, and served as an agent of SAVAK before becoming a partner in the Israeli-Iranian shipping company Starline Iran.
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