Instead, a moments consideration would tell you that whoever it is who is getting the money would publicly deny they were getting it. In fact they would publicly say the whole program was wrong, and should be closed down, wouldn’t they ? And if they worked, say, for the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars’ Middle East Program out of a plush office at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, they would deny taking the the money, wouldn’t they ?

So when Haleh Esfandiari (who is Director of the program) says publicly that she thinks the program is not good policy, and she doesn’t take the money, surely you wouldn’t believe her, would you ?

http://www.peakoil.org.au/news/index.php?esfandiari.htm
“Is Haleh Esfandiari a CIA asset ?” collates information on this “diminutive 67-year old grandmother” (who wouldn’t hurt a fly) and you only have to read it to see that everything points to her being exactly what she claims she is not, and what the Iranian regime claims that she is.

She doesn’t have to do anything other than what she proclaims she wants to do – have an open dialog with Iranian academics about women’s rights and human rights and freedom and democracy.
She has written books on the Iranian dissident movement and how they subvert the regime’s agenda, and been given National Endowment for Democracy fellowship for it.

She is paid (indirectly of course) by US Congress and Big Oil, and Big Banks and George Soros’ OSI to do exactly what she believes in. And when she was arrested in Iran and forced to make a “confession”, she only “confessed” to doing things she really did do. The Iranian Government thought that was enough to prove their point, and I agree.

Let us please not just accept that she is not a CIA stooge simply because she and her boss says she isn’t.