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Lt. General Jeffrey Kruse has been ousted arsenic Defense Intelligence Agency director, a elder defence authoritative confirmed Friday.
"Lt Gen Kruse volition nary longer service arsenic DIA Director," the authoritative said successful a little statement.
File: Lt. General Jeffrey Kruse, manager of the Defense Intelligence Agency, during a House Armed Services Subcommittee connected Intelligence and Special Operations proceeding successful Washington, DC, May 15, 2025.
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The DIA was the section liable for the preliminary appraisal of the subject strikes against Iran's atomic facilities. The appraisal said that the strikes had acceptable backmost Tehran's atomic programme by a substance of months, 3 sources acquainted with its contents told CBS quality soon aft the airstrikes.
The DIA's findings besides indicated immoderate of Iran's enriched uranium stockpile had been moved earlier the strikes, according to 1 of the sources.
That appraisal prompted a backlash from the Trump administration, since President Trump had said in an code to the federation pursuing the strikes that "Iran's atomic enrichment facilities person been wholly and wholly obliterated." He said the U.S. strikes had acceptable backmost the Iranian atomic programme "basically decades."
This is simply a breaking communicative and volition beryllium updated.
Nancy Cordes contributed to this report.
Charlie D'Agata is CBS News' elder nationalist information correspondent. He was antecedently a elder overseas analogous and has spent much than 2 decades covering planetary quality for CBS.
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