letter from author peter lance to 9/11 commission chairman tom kean criticising the commission

8/14/2019 Letter from Author Peter Lance to 9/11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean Criticising the Commission

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Oov. Ton KeanChairman 9/11 CommissionOrev university36 Madiion AvenueMadison, N.J. 07940Cover Letter via FAXAttachments via EXPRESS HAIL4/23/04Dear Cov. Xean,This pacXage ia in response to the enclosed e-mail I gotfrom Dietrich Dieter Snell following my "testimony" beforethe 9/11Commission at your New York office on 3/15/04.Z put "testimony" in quotes because there was nostenographer present, nor were my finding? recorded. Mr.Snail informed me that "ninety-five percent of the factgathering w do via witnesses i a in informal sessions."This waa in aharp contrast to the image of fact-gatheringby the Commission as evidenced in the recent series oftelevised public hearing!, wherein high-level governmentofficials deliver sworn, testimony under oath.During my 3/15/04 session Mr. Sneil took notes and told methat he would write up a report. He would then pass on thereport to appropriate people on the Commission staff.Based on my own experience and interviews with members o tthe Commieaion staff it's y conclusion that the majorityof witness fact gathering by the Commission is anecdotal.My session at 26 Federal Plaza was attended by a staffinvestigator named Marco Cordero. Mr. Snell followed upwith the enclosed e-mail of 3/17/04 entitled "Our Meeting."


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In it he asked for the following material which I amenclosing via EXPRESS NAIL:1 ) A transcript and video of m y interview with Col.Rodolfo B. M ea doaa of the PHP recorded on 4/19/02.2. The PNP debriefing memo d a t e d 1/20/95 referred to onpage 278 of my bo ok 1000 YEARS FOR REVEMQB.3. Documents provided to me b y Col. Mendosa or otherPhilippines officials ret the Kurad investigation.4. The FBI NO/rORN m e m o fron 1995 referenced en p. 21 of myprepared testimony.5. The name of the Hoaair prosecutor who was approachedb y the 9/11 ComoiBBion.

R E S P O N S E T O M R . SWELL'S R E Q U E S TMy archives of research for 1000 YEARS is made up of 100'aof pages of documents from the PNP. It would be overlyburdensome for me to produce all of them, but I amincluding a series of relevant documents from the PNP.Re: 1) I'm including both the transcript and the video.Pleaee note that while Col. Mendoza discussed an initialdisclosure by Murad that Yousefs cell was planning to flya email plane into the CIA HQ in Langley, over time, Col.Mendoza uncovered the details of the VERY plot that wasexecuted by Yousef'9 uncle on 9/11.Col. Mandoza revealed to i n e how Yousef and Kurad hadplanned to hijack "commercial" airliners. He, Murad,boasted to the Colonel that the plan was for him personallyto fly one of the planes into the WTC and "die for Allah."Murad also revealed to Col. Mendoza that a number ofIslamic radicals were then training (in 1995) in U.S.flight schools in order to execute the plot.To my knowledge, my interview with Col. Mendoza was themost far reaching ever conducted on the subject of 9/11 andit puts to lie the myth that circulated for years inintelligence circles that Ramai Yousef had contemplatedonly the small-plane-into-CIA scenario.


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This misconception was reported in the New York Times andThe Washington Post as recently as the first anniversary ofthe 9/11 attacks and was cited by Eleanor Hill, chiefcounsel to the Congressional Joint Inquiry.My investigation revealed that the 9/11 plot by YoueeJ.Murad, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and Wall K h a n Amin Shah wasmuch more elaborate and much further along in the planningstages in 1994-95 than ever previously reported.In our 4/19/02 interview, Col. Mendoza confirmed thatthree of Yousef ' targets were the CIA, the Pentagon andan unnamed nuclear facilityFurther, I'm attaching an interview done by CNN on 9/18/01with Rigoberto Bobby Tiglao, a secretary to PhilippinesPresident Ramos. In it, Mr. Tiglao states that the Muradinterrogation also revealed the WTC, and the Trans mericaand Seara Towers as targets.Later in my book, I quoted an A. P. story by John Solomonthat put the number of Islamic pilots training in 1995 inU.S. flight schools for the Yousef 9/11 plot at "ten."Further, my book reported a revelation by former FBI assetHarry Ellen, whose control agent in squad Five, Phoenix wasSpecial Agent Ken Williams, author of "the Phoenix Memo."Ellen told me that he had warned Williams about suspiciousIslamic pilots training in Arizona flight schools a s earlyas the fall of 1996.Re: 2) I am producing 3 of the 1/20/95 Debriefing Memo's4 pages. In copying the memo last week in Santa Barbara,I inadvertently left off the last page which includedparagraph "m." This is the paragraph quoted in my book inwhich Col. Mendoza wrote o f his initial interrogation ofAbdul Hakim Murad:"With regards to their plan to dive-crash a commercialaircraft at the CIA Headquarters,,,, subject alleged that theidea of doing same came out during his casual conversationwith ABDUL BASIT (Ramzi Yousef) and there is no specificplan yet for its execution."


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As referenced above, this was a preliminary revelation byMurad early in his interrogation by Col. endoza and later,Murad confessed to the entire 9/11 plot.Further, I am enclosing a transcript of the very interviewCol. Mendoza did with Murad in which M u r a c t referenced thesmall-plane-into-CIA scenario, so that you can understandthe proper context of this early description of the plot.The next time I am back in California I will supply themissing 4* h page from that memo, but my book quote a itverbatim on p. 278 as Mr. Snell notes in his e-mail.Prom the transcript and other debriefing memos enclosedfrom 1/17/95, 1/30/95 and 2/21/95, we can see how extensiveMurad'a U.S. flight training was.Many intelligence officials, including former CIA DirectorJames woolsey, have confused this "third plot" which becamethe 9/11 attack with yousefs "BOJINKA" plot.Bojinka involved smuggling the components of bomb triggerson the first legs of two-leg U.S. bound jumbo jet flightsfrom Asia. It was not a suicide-hijacking plot*Along with the plot to kill Pope John Paul IT on his Manilavisit on 1/12/95, Yousef'a 9/11 p l a n e s - a a - m i f i f l i l e s plot wasseparate .and distinct from BoJinXa.As further evidence of Murad's involvement in this thirdhijacking-suicide plot, consider his extensive flighttraining. There was no reason for a conspirator who wasgoing to plant a bomb on board a two-leg flight to haveundergone flight training. Yet Murad was a commercial pilot.Col. Mendoza's interview and the interrogation transcriptshow that Murad was going to be the lead pilot and serve inthe role later filled by Mohammed Atta on 9/11/01.R e t 3) In addition to the above referenced PNF documentsI'm also including reports on Islamic radical activityin the Southern Philippines during the Christmas 1994-95holiday along with another report on Yousafs co-conspirator Wali Khan Amin Shah and an extensive reportby the PNP on Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Osama Bin Laden'Bbrother in law. Khalifa was believed to be the primaryfunding source for the Pope, Bojinka and 9/11 plots asthey were conceived in Manila in the fall and winter of1994-1995,


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Re: 4) The 1995 FBI NO/FORM memo i s valuable on two fronts.First, in referencing the CIA, Pentagon and nucleartargets/ it proves that Col. Mendoza's intelligence on theYousef-KSM-Murad-Khan plots had reached the U.S. JusticeDepartment. Col. Mendoza told me that he had turned overall of his evidence to the U.S. Embassy in Manila in thespring of 1995 and this NO/PORK memo confirms that.But the memo also underscores the FBI's disconnection in1995. On one had they describe Yousef s cell as evidencing"a larger threat from Islamic extremists."But on the other hand, despite the masaive volume ofintelligence in the FBI's New York office on the 1993 wrcbombing and the "Day of Terror" plot, this nemo refers toYoueef' group aa being separate from the plottersconvicted with blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.Although the memo acknowledges that Youaef might have beengetting his funding from Osama bin Laden, it continues torefer to this tightly integrated a l Qaeda cell as beingpart of a "loose group of politically committed Muslims."Given the intelligence furnished by Col. Mendoza it wasfrankly astonishing, at that point in 1995, that the U.S.Justice Department could be so naive with respect to theal Qaeda-bin Laden-Yousef-Abdel Rahman threat.As late as 1995 the FBI didn't seem to know what v r a a in itsown files in the,Southern District of New York and 26Federal Plaza, the bin Laden "office of origin."No excuse of a "wall* can explain their failure to connecttheir own internal dots. Gov Kean. But in watching thelatest round of Commission hearings I'm concerned thatyou're in danger of making the same mistake.R e t 5) Mr. Snell asked me about the name of an AssistantD.A. in Robert Morganthau'g office who had been one of theprosecutors in the trial of El Sayyid Noaair. Nosair, anEgyptian, had been on the FBI's radar since July, 1989 whenhe was photographed at Calvercon, Long island.Of those men recorded in dozens of photographs by the FBI'aSpecial Operations Groups (SOO) one (Nosair) went on to beconvicted in the murder of Rabbi Meier Kahane in 1990;three (Abouhalima, Salameh and Ayyad) went on to beconvicted with Youaef in the 1993 WTC bombing conspiracy;


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one (Hampton-El) vent on to be convicted in the"Day o f Terror" plot along with Shiekh Abdel Rahman andtheir leader, Ali Mohaimed, went on to train bin Laden1 Bpersonal bodyguards in Xhoat, Afghanistan in 1996 andpersonally survey the African Embassies for the 1998bombing that killed 234 and injured 5000.ALL OF THESE INDIVIDUALS were known to the FBI ae far backas 12 years before the 9/11 attacks and all of them weremembers of a tightly organized al Qaeda cell fundedDIRECTLY by Osama bin Laden.Noaair was an early "al Qaeda martyr," beloved of binLaden. In the infamous video fatwa two weeks before theOctober 2000 Cole bombing, bin Laden, brandishing adagger, had Sheikh Rahman's son by his side who said,"go to the spilling of blood for your Sheikh" and"remember El Sayyid (Hosair)."In order to fully understand the road to 9/11you have togo back at least, to 1989 and examine the FBI's four-weekendsurveillance of those ME'i (Middle Eastern men) shootingautomatic weapons &t Calverton, Long island.You have to follow the through line of how Egyptianradicals, surrounding bin Laden, helped him take over theMAK Office of Services Network which morphed into al Qaeda,You have to see that the first al Qaeda blood spilled onU.S. soil was that of Rabbi Kahane on 11/5/90.You have to appreciate how bin Laden had contributed toNOBair's defense because he was part of an al Qaeda cellthat had set up a brick and mortar outpost in Brooklyn asearly ae February, 1991with the murder of Mustafa Shalabi.Yet in published reports following your CIA and DOJhearings last week Commissioner Jaime S. Gorelick wasquoted as aaying (paraphrasing) that the Commission is"focusing on the years from 1998forward."IP THIS IB TRUE, 60V.KEAK IOU AXE MAKING A PROFOUND MISTAKE,

Further, you are making a mistake in utilizing people likeDieter Snell to ask the question of witnesses like ma.


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I was very complimentary to Mr. Snell in my book, Be hashad an exemplary record of service as an attorney on thefederal and state level.But how can the Commission objectively evaluate whethert h e Justice Department and th FBI ignored KEY INTELLIGENCEregarding the incipient 9/11 plot in 1995 when, DieterSnell, one of your senior counsels was the co-prosecutoro f Yousef, Murad and Wali Khan in the Bojinka ease?i n my book, I made the point that the Bojinka caaeprosecutors went out of their way to avoid any referencesto the 9/11plot that Col.Mendoza had uncovered.Even though he had the most extensive knowledge of Murad'srevelations. Col. Mendoza was not invited to testify at thetrial in the Southern District of New York, This, despitethe fact that 11 other PNP officials wade the trip.Further, an FBI agent (Frank Pellegrino) and a PNP official(Major Alberto Ferro) were allowed by Mr. Snsll and AUSAMike Garcia to give misleading testimony at trial thatprevented the jury for understanding the full dimensions ofthe post Bojinka plot that Yousef and his uncle KhalidShaikh Mohammed had in store for America.As referenced in my book, Maj. rerro testified that he didnot remember the names of Murad's interrogators, eventhough he was at Col. Mendoza' side for much of theinterrogation (as my enclosed transcript shows).And agent Pellegrino testified under oath that he wasunaware that Murad was being interrogated at camp Crane,in Manila until mid March of 1995, even though he hadtraveled to Manila and was present at that very Camp frommid January of 1995two months earlier.Further, unlike it'a approach to capturing Yousef, whichinvolved a global hue and cry with Yousefs want poster ontens of thousands matchbooks worldwide, the hunt for KhalidShaikh Mohaiwned was carried out largely in secret by theFBI and the DOJ.First XSM was secretly indicted with Yousef in 1996, yatthe indictment wasn't even unsealed until January of 1998where it was barely mentioned in the New York Time acoverage of Yousef's sentencing.


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The FBI failed to capture KSM at the bin Laden controlledSue Caaa Guesthouse in February, 1995. In fact, he evengave an interview to TIME magazine at the tine using hisown name/ but the Feds missed him.When former FBI Director ?reeh testified under oath at yourrecent hearing that the FBI arrested Yousef at that time,he was wrong. The arrest was affected by agents of theState Department's Diplomatic Security Service and the DBA.But beyond losing KSM, the FBI failed to put him on anypublic lists of wanted terrorists until AFTER he hadexecuted his nephew Ramzi's plot on 9/11.Based on my investigation, this suggests an apparent effortby the Justice Department to suppress any evidence of theYousef -KSM broader conspiracy that culminated on 9/11.The Question i t W H I T ? A n d why did the Justice Departmentignore the profound evidence of this incipient 9/11 plotwhich was supplied to them bv Col. Mondosa in April of 1995?Those are the two moat important unanswered questionsresulting from my research.Yet, after you read my book and invited me to testify beforethe Commission to share my findings who did staff directorPhillip zelikow assign to question me?Dietrich Dieter Snell, one of the two prosecutors on theBojinka case/ who was apparently a party to the DOJ decisionto ignore Col. Mendoza'a evidence of the emerging 9/11 plot.if you really want to get at the truth, Mr. Snell should beA WITNESS before the 9/11 Commission, not one of its leadINTERROGATORS. I told him this to his face during my"testimony" on 3/15/04.B e i n g a congenial man, all he c o u l d do was smile.But because I fear a conflict of interest with Mr. Snell,I am forwarding the evidence to you at Drew University.Governor Kaan, I a m we l l aware o f h o w d i f f i c u l t your job i sas chairman of this c o m m i s s i o n .


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I'm also grateful for the fact that you took the time toread 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE and recently cited the book inan interview on C-Span.But apparently I haven't persuaded you.In response to aquestion about the first WTC b o r a b i n g trial you said.'"There's a book by Peter Lance called 1000YEARS forRevenge in which he actually tries to link that main bomberin the WTC One as the visionary for what happened on 9/11."The fact that you said that I "tried" to link both attackssuggests to me that you are not convinced.I believe that my book PROVES Yousefa involvement, by atleast a civil standard (praponderanca of the evidence).Yet in the recent 9/11 hearings in your questions and thoseo f the other caxnmiaaioners, none of you seem to haveaccepted the overwhelming evidence which shows that:-Osama bin Laden had an al Qaeda cell in New York City fromFebruary, 1991;-that he directly funded the original WTC bombing and waedirectly responsible for the 9/11 attacks which were bothhatched in the brilliant but deadly mind of Ramzi Yousef;-that the second attack was' set into motion as early a s1994 by Yousef and executed by hie uncle Khalid. ShaikhMohammed.Once you embrace that line of evidence and understand thefull impact of bin Laden's jihad directed at our country/the Commission will be in a better position to craftproposals for dealing with the future threat.The truth behind 9/11i s that apart from the Islamicradicals who perpetrated the plot, there was profoundnegligence on the part of three separate U.S.administrations Crom George Herbert Walker Bush, throughPresident Bill Clinton to the current President.Further, the 9/11 attacks not only represented the greatestintelligence failure since the Trojan Horse, theyrepresented the greatest failure in Defense since ournation was founded - given the Bush Administration'sresponse on "theday of."


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I have several sources on the Commission staff andreferencing back to question NO. 5 about the "Noialrprosecutor" I vaa told months ago by an investigator thath e had r ecoir en end ed to hii colleagues in Washington thatthey call David Greenbaum the Nosair Assistant D.A. in aneffort to shed light on the early days of OBL's conspiracy.B u t the word to this investigator was "we're not interestedi n going back that far."I f you don't go back that far, Gov. Keen, I fear that youwill Be presenting an incomplete picture.

t 'In this case getting a part of the truth isn't enough. Youhave to understand the full 12 year road to Sept. 11 th if'your want to interdict the next series of attacks on ouricountry which will surely come.Please contact me and let me know if I can be of anyfurther assistance. As an American first and a journalistsecond, I pray that you learn, the WHOLE TRUTH and thatevidence i s gathered fairly, completely and without regardto the political consequences.\y Many thanks,

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PeterThanks so much for taking the time to meet with us Monday. We appreciated your presentation and lookforward to examining the documents you volunteered to provide. To recap, we'd fc* vary intereatsd In andgrataful t9 receive:

1. transcript and video of your Interview of Col. Mendoza2. PNP debriefing memo dated 1/20/95, referred to in your book on p. 2783. any documents provided to you by Mendozi or any other PhlHpplnes official re: Mured interrogation4. FBI NO/FOR N mem oa from 1895, referenced on p. 21 of your prepared testimony5. The name of the Nooair proseculor who has approachedthe Commission.I understand, of course, thai it may be some time before you'll have a chance to assemble this material,especially In view of your current obligations back east. I jusl wanted to send you this reminder whNs ourmemories are still fresh.Thanks again for your help, and best of luck with your current/future end eavors.Oleter Snell


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PeterThanks $o much for taking the t ime to meet with us Monday. We appreciated your presentation and lookforward to examining the documenta you volunteered to provide. To recap, we'd be very Interested In andgrateful to receive:

1. transcript an d video of you r Interview of Col. Mendoza2. PNP debdflfjng mem o dated 1/20/85, referred to in your book on p. 2703. any documents provided to you by Mendoza or any other Philippines official re : Murad Interrogation4. FBI NO/FORN rnemos from 1995, referenced on p. 21 of your prepared test imony5. The name of the Nosa lr prosecutor who has approached the Commission.I understand, of course, that It m ay be come time before you'll have a chance to assemble this material,especially in view of your current obligations back east, I just wanted to send yo u this reminder while ourmemories are still fresh,Thanks again, for your help, and best of luck with your current/future endeavors.Dieter Snell


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i, The fol lowing are the i n f o r i i i & w i a n ob taJ .n t td -from A B D U UH A S J M M L J R A D during the d b r i a r f i n< j conducted o n J.9 January

1995. *. a. In iha Jttr part o* ,F*bru*ry 1993, aftar the W T Ubo*lMll^^MWHk:'1)(BttT'.wrtt to Karachi, Petislan - duringtime, subject itstaying** the residence of hi* unclo 'cin Dfene, P*kit*n.in thw rly part of March W93,cl ld up the BUblttet and advi>d the lattar of h.i preantier X ntha country. The duo met esch othr st3 restaurant located R T .Tariq

D u r i n g fchs i r aeeting., A b du l Basit diucus f .&d nith the?tiubject h o v f b axitcuted the W T C bomb in g * > ABDUL

a.3. Upon rAehio M w Vork, tlta two unbo*rdd t.h*plane Beevrntaiy. *E JL WBt -' -- ^ ^fiTra* t o- out ai theairport and he wait*d for A H M A D WAJ outai *, Urtfiaover, th lattCws not B t b l w to ftt out o-f the airport tince h# was orrat.Bd bvairport authoriti* - f o r having rt 'fai** p* i* fW3i" t and * notobookn huw -f,o ntakw * tiomfa.a.3. Upon larn.ino th*t AHH60 A J A J*nt* ?** tnfi "i t at th th* nont day, H yont to A

O H ^ U V I f i C f t t e p eun*whe&r in vlerBoy City, Mew Jersttv whir*in sonitabrothers provided him ai*tn e. {Uld / n B B l * m r-ferrcihe aubMqutKttly mat I1AHHOD flBUHALl-tlft - . ' M f i H l " ' WRiiSC. IWW^p Ha aleo introduced himnclf. to them a* anIr^qi rB'fug^a. -Th0 trio bscanur h,ia eonsfcf in t companion during hi*ty in M 9W Yorh dntf Osrswy City, N ew J f f r f ? y , flli f -thun 'wit-tingly aided him in tha planning, preparation and eHACution ofWTC bombing.

Aftr thtt meet inn 3 th* two parted their wsys. A B J 3 L J LB A S I T v n n t back to embaaay Hotttl located in r.nirachi vihttrn he istomorarily billeted. Sinew then, thw two u t d to 'wot *Acn othwrf r o m tiow. -toto Oubai toconvert hie Comitrareial Pilot 4.icnv ttjit ha failed do HO due tolacking requirements. Pftorwliich, he went to- Kuwait to visit hitp*r*nts. ' .

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e. Sometime in July 13 ASDUU BftllT arrived Rt thtfubj*et6 apartment with a unall volrtme Q1 several kind* of chemJL-C l f i anS a/ fcartf fd practicing in mak i ng never*! kind*' of erplomivesin gaU M*iW*g> i - figra^Q '-iiw 3Ad practice, * M1L quantityo-f. toed **fce wei:nttfny >,iil*tHrt T V * W T 1ss*-f*,In

raon. The *Ubjct dwcided to trn^fr Bf tS lT tu Ag h Ho*pit*i ,nice in Karachi wherain th Utter via* givn the Firat Aid but*9*in v f t nt admitted. T h e ' f t u B J B c t then brought EMIT toHopil also in Karachi *jhrviri BA 9 I T w a r n -finallyBA8 IT oot cqnfinvd *t the >*id hppitl tor two months. Duringth first month of con-Cintmont, ubjct took cr afon th


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in the ea r ly part C . - T December X94 .P A B D U Lin M a n i l a called up ths subject an d aHtfd thissceed to tha Philippines and the f o r m e r w i l l N4iUeteripnBB. O n the 2 6 f c h day of aemt m o n t h , aubject arrivedlipinB an d prrt-''d*rpBl 'nJ8'1ffH**-4*a*l irtE t a , Man i l a , . O n the fa t lowi rvg d ay , A B D U L 8A3IT fetched tnect an d brought the latter to aoeef*ftpar..**!y part of 0cwnt>r 1994 ABDULPuJlB -rwrtwi a e'htfp r t -fii bik gnt < 1 Aviiti'on

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lor itsfrxneution. Wht th* ubj*at hav In hi* mind !th twill board any anerican commreial aircraft pretRndinQ to baorrfinnry paRenger. Thn h will hijack taid lrBrfi|itssgckptt and div* it at th CIAHwadquBrterR, Thn> will b riobomb or *ny xpioivo that b will une in its >icution.lt iftinply BuicidM miBM-ion that hn in very fnuch w iHS - n f l to exe-cute. That all h n*d IB to t>* *bl to boferti the trcrsft vath piatol BO nat he could n>tcuCe tr h.ljckLnq.

n. According 'to thv aubjbct "Blind Shiekh." i a personnfcirmd O M A R ABOULRAHMAM, an Egyptian I H A M in N*w Jerfcay whom ABDULBA91T viitd cane*. He wac mrrtd and J*Ud in th, UnitedState* lor mn offence not Known to th tubjet. Hii molem ereth-er uvwfi to call hint Slind Shivkh bcau*n of hi b&ng a blind.2 > Subject Bam to btr coopffrat'ivn during the dabriof ing,howwvwr h think* that th* qutidne being asked by -Inn dbri**r

are quetion fortDUlatod by thk aimariean and that V.nn .informa-tion that wall tee obtain f r om h im viill be pa*od on to the aniQii-c anB f Thu, tho subject via* eb'Jrvttii to be very mwcn *ngry withtheftfliericRna and the United atates government.3. For infor.nation and r*fsvsnce.