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[TD]June 20-21, 2012 -- Declassified CIA document shows Cheney lied about 9/11 hijacker meeting in Prague (in: GENERAL ARCHIVES June 2012)
Jun 19, 2012CIA document: Was there another "Atta" used as a decoy for 9/11?
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Just released by WMR; currently embargoed.
With the embargo lifted, here is the full text:
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[TD]June 20-21, 2012 -- Declassified CIA document shows Cheney lied about 9/11 hijacker meeting in Prague
A formerly SECRET CIA intelligence report, dated December 8, 2001, which has been heavily redacted and released to the private National Security Archive pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, shows that Vice President Dick Cheney lied when he told "Meet the Press"host Tim Russert on September 14, 2003, that alleged American Airlines hijacker Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague on May 31, 2000.
The CIA document's subject line reads: TERRORISM: DISCOVERY THAT 11 SEPTEMBER 2001 HIJACKER MOHAMED ATTA DID NOT TRAVEL TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC ON 31 MAY
2000.
The CIA intelligence report also states: "Subsequent investigation of the travel to the Czech Republic of terrorist Mohamed (Atta) revealed that the individual who attempted to enter the Czech Republic on 31 May 2000 at [REDACTED] airport was not the Atta who attacked the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. [REDACTED] It was Pakistani national [REDACTED]."
The report continues, "Initial conclusions regarding terrorist's Atta's presence in 31 March 2001 were incorrect . . . Based on information provided it was not possible that the kidnapper of American Airlines Flight Number 11, Atta, was in the transit lounge on 31 May 2000."
The revelation that there was another individual who may have used the name "Mohamed Atta" who was in Prague just a day before the Egyptian Atta transited Prague on his way to Newark, New Jersey indicates that certain parties were trying to make it appear that Atta was in Prague to meet an Iraqi official. It has now been documented that after 9/11, Cheney and leading members of the administration intended to tie the 9/11 attack to Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
Cheney told Russert in the September 14, 2003 interview: "With respect to 9/11, of course, we've had the story that's been public out there. The Czechs alleged that Mohamed Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack, but we've never been able to develop anymore of that yet either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it. We just don't know."
Since the White House Situation Room was an action addee for the CIA intelligence report, Cheney had known since December 8, 2001, that the reported Atta meeting with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague was false, which meansCheney lied to the American people during the interview.
The CIA report states that on June 1, 2000, Mohamed Atta, presumably the real one, traveled from Bonn to Prague and then to Newark:
"1 June 2000: Atta requested a Czech visa in Bonn, which was issued to him because of his long-term residency in Germany. Atta then purchased a bus ticket.
2 June 2000: At approximately 0615 hours, Atta arrived in Prague. Either Atta or someone else purchased a ticket in his name for Czech Airlines Flight [Redacted].
3 June 2000: Atta traveled from Prague to Newark, New Jersey via Czech Airlines Flight 52."
The "real" Atta received a B-1/B-2 tourist/business visa from the U.S. embassy in Berlin on May 18, 2000.
The CIA document reveals that there another "Atta" who supposedly was in Prague on May 31, but the CIA also clearly suggests that someone using Atta's name may have purchased a ticket on the Czech Airlines flight to Newark, an indication that some party was trying to create a paper trail linking Mohammed Atta to Prague and Iraqi intelligence as early as May 2000.
Curiously, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Customs Service were action addees on the Priority CIA message, as was the National Security Agency's ANCHORY data base of signals intelligence intercepts. It was from ANCHORY that two communications, said to be from "Al Qaeda" operatives, were stored on September 10, 2001, but were not tied to the hijackings of the four aircraft until after the messages were translated from Arabic to English on September 12. The two phone call communications, said to have originated in Sana'a, Yemen and intercepted by NSA on September 10, were "The match begins tomorrow" and "Tomorrow is zero hour."
WMR has learned that NSA had possessed the capability to conduct real-time translation of intercepted foreign language communications since the 1980s when it began developing the MINSTREL translation system. GTE was the prime contractor for MINSTREL. Originally, the NSA real-time translations were confined to Russian, French, German, and Spanish. However, because of terrorism incidents in the Middle East, real-time Arabic translation capability was a high priority and NSA's ability to translate real-time Arabic voice and text intercepts was well-honed by September 10, 2001.
As to the action addee status of the DEA and Customs Service concerning Atta, it has been widely reported that the real Atta was a suspected drug mule. Atta's trip from Prague to Newark also came at the height of the DEA's probe of several Israeli "art students" who were casing federal installations and other high-priority targets in several months before 9/11. The Customs Service was also involved in the DEA's investigation.
The CIA report brings up a number of questions. Chiefly, if someone had gone to the trouble of running "another Atta" through Prague to link the upcoming 9/11 attack to Iraq, could the same party or parties have arranged for a bogus Atta to have been seen boarding a Colgan Air commuter flight from Portland, Maine International Jetport to connect with American Airlines flight 11 at Boston Logan on the morning of 9/11?
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