Posted on 05/05/2023 7:29:09 AM PDT by Twotone
LIKE MANY GREAT SPY STORIES, this one begins with a brief, mundane scene whose significance only becomes apparent later on. Around lunchtime on February 1, 2000, a man dropped a piece of paper near a table in a Middle Eastern restaurant outside Los Angeles and paused long enough to strike up a conversation with two Arabic-speaking men dining nearby. It would take FBI agents nearly 20 years to understand the full meaning of that small event.
The man who dropped the piece of paper was Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi intelligence asset, recently declassified FBI documents show. And the two Arabic-speaking men with whom he struck up a conversation with were Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, the first two future 9/11 hijackers to arrive in the United States. Was this meeting, as the alleged agent later claimed to investigators, mere happenstance? Or was it an intelligence operation being conducted on U.S. soil? It was an intelligence operation, according to a previously-unreported court filing SpyTalk has obtained that corroborates and expands our understanding of this extraordinary meeting, which took place just as the 9/11 plot was taking shape.
The court filing details a five-year inquiry by an investigator for the Guantanamo Military Commission into whether the meeting at the Mediterranean Gourmet restaurant was an operation that involved not only Saudi agents but CIA officers as well.
The theory that the CIA had launched a failed effort to recruit the hijackers through the Saudis has been around for years, and was always circumstantial at best, but the document obtained by SpyTalk reveals there is more evidence to support it. One former FBI agent claimed to the investigator that the CIA possesses top secret “operational” files and a “paper trail” about the Saudi spy who met the hijackers that are still being suppressed.
(Excerpt) Read more at spytalk.co ...
Tin foil.
history is realz
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So is the theory that the CIA tried to recruit these first two hijackers via Saudi intelligence and failed?
And...?
Read everything; believe nothing.
So is the theory that the CIA tried to recruit these first two hijackers via Saudi intelligence and failed?
And...?
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I agree.
In fact, at first blush it sounds to me like they wanted to make them double agents, and get intel on Bid Laden or whoever else. I didn’t click and read past the excerpt, but what accusation is the FBI actually making here?
Another BS cover up. There were no hijackers.
*I didn’t click and read past the excerpt*
Neither did I.
20 years past the sell-by date.
Ok, this is hilarious.
When I went on my honeymoon in Bali in summer of 2001, the USA State Dept warned us their was activity there.
The Bali bombing in 2002 happened within 100 ft of where we had dinner one night.
To this day, its surprising to me that the State Dept knew about Bali and zero about the USA
That’s a lot of effort. And for what? LOL
The rabbit hole is deep on this one.
Most Freepers dare not look there—because they will not like what they find.
Hint: Use the rule of opposites.
Take the official narrative and try to imagine the exact opposite of it.
It's also likely that if this blew up in their faces as it appears to have happened, they acted to deep-six any information about it. My understanding from investigations at the time was that CIA did hide info about terrorists infiltrating into the US from the FBI to protect "sources and methods." This was part of the "stove-piping" criticized at the time. Maybe now we know why.
Like we can trust what either of these corrupt agencies say . . .
Memo went out today:
Avoid any reference to Biden’s sell out of the USA to foreign powers.
Appeal to emotions. Bring up disasters. Quick something else besides the Bidens!
Yep. A modified, limited hangout. Meant as always to steer the half-aware down the wrong (and less damning) path.
Good. Get the Socialists fighting one another...maybe they’ll leave US alone for a while. *SPIT*
“My understanding from investigations at the time was that CIA did hide info about terrorists infiltrating into the US from the FBI to protect “sources and methods.” “
That is both true and misleading at the same time.
Dig deeper.
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