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State Department spokesman John Kirby responded: “There are no secret agreements between Iran and the IAEA that the P5-1 has not been informed of in detail” and said, “This type of technical agreement with the IAEA is a matter of standard practice, whether it is not published publicly or in other states, but our experts know and know the content. we would like to talk to Congress in a secret setting. [289] The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation wrote: “The agreement sets out procedural information on how the IAEA will conduct its investigation into the history of Iran`s laminated nuclear program, including the mention of the names of the informants who will be interviewed. Disclosure of this information would compromise these informants and the information it contains. [287] Mark Hibbs of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Thomas Shea, a former IAEA security officer and former head of defence non-proliferation programs at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, wrote that the accusations of “secret haircut” by opponents of the agreement were an “established controversy.” [89] Hibbs and Shea wrote: “The IAEA has a security agreement with 180 countries. All have similar information protection provisions. Without this, governments would not open their nuclear programs to multilateral surveillance. On 5 August, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano negotiated the book when he told members of Congress that he could not provide them with the details of the [verification protocol] negotiated by the IAEA with Iran as part of a bilateral “roadmap”. [89] David Albright, founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security and former IAEA nuclear inspector, said calls for more transparency regarding the Iran-IAEA agreement were “not inappropriate” and that “Iran is a great cry for more confidentiality. However, if the IAEA wanted to make it more open, it could do so. [293] Albright also proposed that the United States “clearly and publicly confirm, and Congress should argue through legislation that if Iran does not address the IAEA`s concerns about the previous military dimensions of its nuclear programs, the United States.