Fake Spy Based WMD Reports On Action Movie

MI6 was led to believe Saddam Hussein was continuing to produce weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by a false agent who based his reports on a Hollywood action movie, the Chilcot Inquiry has disclosed. In September 2002, MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove said the agency had acquired information from a new source revealing that Iraq was stepping up production of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) agents. Sir Richard told the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), Sir John Scarlett, th