James Risen's Book: CIA Snookered by Iran?

I have not read James Risen's (NY Times journalist) new book, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration." But I will, and I'll comment on it then. However, the Associated Press carries this account about the book with references to three particular stories in it. [Edit: Of course, as you can see above, I question the veracity of Risen's sources - not with respect to the NSA's eavesdropping program necessarily, but on other matters. Therefore, I take both the AP's account and Risen's book with a large grain of salt.]

The first is a description of how the CIA recruited the sister of a scientist in Saddam's nuclear program to dig for information. Risen's book "said her brother was stunned by her questions about the nuclear program because — he said — it had been dead for a decade." Other family members, Risen says, reported the same thing.

The second story surrounds the current NSA eavesdropping scandal, which the AP says is "the major revelation in the book." Risen already gave that one away on the pages of the NY Times.

But it is the third account I found particularly intruiguing. The AP reports:

In another chapter on a "rogue operation," the book said a CIA officer mistakenly sent one of its Iranian agents information that could be used to identify virtually every spy the agency had in Iran. The book said the Iranian was a double agent who turned over the data to Iranian security officials.

The book said the information severely damaged the CIA's Iranian network, and quoted CIA sources as saying several of the U.S. agents were arrested and jailed.

I don't know if this last account is true, but if it is we have a major problem on our hands. I have numerous questions about this last one, in particular, but I'll let it sit there for the time being.

Was the CIA snookered by Iran? Was its entire Iranian network compromised?