The article didn't mention anything about spying, did it?
Saddam Hussein's regime offered a $2 million (£1.4 million) bribe to the United Nations' chief weapons inspector to doctor his reports on the search for weapons of mass destruction.
I assumed that this statement meant what it said.
It didn't say "bribe to the chief weapons inspector to report findings back to Saddam, or to otherwise spy for him."
You are aware that the "team's" findings would end up being largely filtered through the chief weapons inspector?
You're doing outside loops trying to dodge the obvious rational conclusion, but by all means, keep at it.