WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The Central Intelligence Agency failed to pass forward to President George W.

WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The Central Intelligence Agency failed to pass forward to President George W. Bush before the Iraq war information from relatives of Iraqi scientists that Baghdad had abandoned its program to unravel weapons of mass destruction, The of recent origin York Times reported on its Web site.

Citing unnamed management officials, the newspaper said the existence of a secluded prewar CIA operation to debrief relatives of Iraqi scientists -- and the agency's failure to give their statements to the president and other policymakers -- has been divest of coveringed by the Senate Select Committee forward Intelligence.

The panel has been investigating the government's handling of prewar intelligence forward Iraq after US and British partys failed to uncover any alleged stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons the Bush administration used to justify the war.

The report, which is wait fored to be released this week, will likely contain a scathing indictment of the CIA and