Editing Hans Blix (section)

===CIA investigation===
Senior American officials ordered the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) to investigate Blix to gather "sufficient ammunition to undermine" him so that the US could start the invasion of Iraq. The American officials were upset that the CIA did not uncover such information.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/04/15/skirmish-on-iraq-inspections/1223f8bd-2129-4a05-b5e4-f1c5ca1c6582/|title=Skirmish on Iraq Inspections|last=Pincus|first=Walter|newspaper =[[Washington Post]]|date=April 15, 2002}}</ref><ref>[http://www.accuracy.org/release/668-chemical-weapons-agency-coup/ The Institute for Public Accuracy, 24 April 2002, "Chemical Weapons Agency 'Coup'"?]</ref>

Blix said he suspected his home and office were bugged by the United States while he led teams searching for Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction.<ref name="bug">{{cite news | title=Blix suspected U.S. spied on him | url =http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/28/un.britain/index.html | publisher =[[CNN]] | access-date = 2007-09-20 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080407085915/http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/28/un.britain/index.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 7 April 2008}}</ref> Although these suspicions were never directly substantiated, evidence of a request for bugging of UN Security Council representatives around the time the US was seeking approval from the council came to light after a British government translator leaked a document "allegedly from an American National Security Agency" requesting that British intelligence put wiretaps on delegates to the UN Security Council.<ref>{{cite news | title= Iraq war 'spy memo case' collapses | date= 25 February 2004| url =http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/02/25/uk.gchq/index.html | publisher =[[CNN]] | access-date = 2008-04-21 }}</ref>