CIA plan: Discredit Saddam Hussein by portraying him as gay

Wed. May 26, 2010 12:00 AM by GoPride.com News Staff

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Washington, D.C. - In 2003, as the U.S. military prepared to invade Iraq, CIA officials were apparently coming up with all kinds of bizarre plans, including a plan to portray former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as gay.

CIA agents considered making a fake video showing an actor who looked like Hussein having sex with a teenage boy.

"It would look like it was taken by a hidden camera," a former CIA official told Washington Post blogger Jeff Stein. "Very grainy, like it was a secret videotaping of a sex session."

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Then agents would flood Iraq with the video.

Ultimately the plan was tossed out.

"Saddam playing with boys would have no resonance in the Middle East -- nobody cares," another former CIA official told the Washington Post. "Trying to mount such a campaign would show a total misunderstanding of the target. We always mistake our own taboos as universal when, in fact, they are just our taboos."

The CIA apparently did make a video in which a pretend Osama bin Laden sat around a campfire drinking and discussing sexual conquests of boys with his cronies. That video has never seen the light of day.