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The full report is available here: http://www1.sky.com/news/irangov2011-6.pdf
According to the report, it is not based on "laptop documents" but:
12. As indicated in paragraph 6 above, among the information available to the Agency is the alleged
studies documentation: a large volume of documentation (including correspondence, reports, view graphs
from presentations, videos and engineering drawings), amounting to over a thousand pages. The
information reflected in that documentation is of a technically complex and interconnected nature,
showing research, development and testing activities over time. It also contains working level
correspondence consistent with the day to day implementation of a formal programme. Consistent with the
Agency’s practice, that information has been carefully and critically examined. The Agency has also had
several meetings with the Member State to clarify the information it had provided, to question the Member
State about the forensics it had carried out on the documentation and the information reflected in it, and to
obtain more information on the underlying sources.
13. In addition to the alleged studies documentation, the Agency has received information from more
than ten Member States. This has included procurement information, information on international travel
by individuals said to have been involved in the alleged activities, financial records, documents reflecting
health and safety arrangements, and other documents demonstrating manufacturing techniques for certain
high explosive components. This information reinforces and tends to corroborate the information reflected
in the alleged studies documentation, and relates to activities substantially beyond those identified in that
documentation.
14. In addition to the information referred to in paragraphs 12 and 13 above, the Agency has acquired
information as a result of its own efforts, including publications and articles acquired through open source
research, satellite imagery, the results of Agency verification activities and information provided by Iran
in the context of those verification activities.
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Importantly, the Agency has also had direct discussions
with a number of individuals who were involved in relevant activities in Iran, including, for example, an
interview with a leading figure in the clandestine nuclear supply network (see paragraph 35 below). The
information obtained by the Agency from the discussions with these individuals is consistent with the
information provided by Member States, and that acquired through its own efforts, in terms of time frames
and technical content.
15. As indicated in paragraph 8 above, Iran has acknowledged certain information reflected in the
alleged studies documentation. However, many of the answers given by Iran to questions posed by the
Agency in connection with efforts to resolve the Agency’s concerns have been imprecise and/or
incomplete, and the information has been slow in coming and sometimes contradictory. This, combined
with events such as the dismantling of the Lavisan-Shian site in late 2003/early 2004 (see paragraph 19
below), and a pattern of late or after the fact acknowledgement of the existence of previously undeclared
parts of Iran’s nuclear programme, have tended to increase the Agency’s concerns, rather than dispel
them.
16. As indicated above, the information consolidated and presented in this Annex comes from a wide
variety of independent sources, including from a number of Member States, from the Agency’s own
efforts and from information provided by Iran itself. It is overall consistent in terms of technical content,
individuals and organizations involved and time frames. Based on these considerations, and in light of the
Agency’s general knowledge of the Iranian nuclear programme and its historical evolution, the Agency
finds the information upon which Part C of this Annex is based to be, overall, credible.