The United States has not opened an investigation into Iraqi documents that said Russia passed information to Baghdad on US military movements during the 2003 invasion, a Pentagon spokesman said. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman would not say whether the documents -- one of which indicated that Russia had a spy in the US military command in Qatar -- had been previously investigated.
But he cautioned reporters not to "drill down into one particular document and make it more than what it is."
"At various levels throughout the United States government these documents have been made available for people to examine and to learn lessons from," he told reporters.
"I'm not aware at this point of any particular review, investigation, whatever you want to call it, at this particular juncture," he said.
The existence of the captured documents was revealed in a military after-action study of the war that looked at the invasion from the Iraqi perspective.
Russia denied it passed US military information to the Iraqis, and said the accusation had never been raised before by US officials. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the charges "politically motivated."
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said over the weekend the administration intended to raise the documents with the Russians.
"We would take very seriously any suggestion that this may have been done, maybe to the detriment of American forces," Rice said in an interview with NBC television.
But she maintained that the administration had not yet "had a chance to look at the documents in detail," and said she would not jump to conclusions about what role the Russians played.
