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unger\ai?paJrently acknowledges in the article that this assertion came from Gerald Posner's book While
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Tom Eidindge Vrote: \\d to hear you are still on the job.

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don't know, can't remember, all these questions sound the. same to me now, i'll have
ti? teview & get back to you

Toni Eldridge wrote:

, I can't remember if I already asked you this. Craig Unger, of.Vanity Fair fame,
. asserts in one of his pieces that when Abu Zubaydab was captured he told his
CIA interrogators that Saudi Prince Ahmed Bin Salmon Bin Abdulaziz-the
same Salman who we know flew out of Lexington Kentucky on September 16,
2Q01 on a chartered 727—"not only had alleged ties to al Qaeda, but may also
haye knoVn in advance that there would be attacks on\9/11." At|he risk of
suggesting I give credence to Unger's reporting, is ther0 evidence, in support
of this clairti whatsoever?
-Tom \- Original Message — \

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Subject: Re: Question

Tom Eldridge wrote: .

In connection with our investigation, an individual has

come up, and we were wondering whether there is\g at CIA on him worth requesting.

His name is sufficiently unusual that it would probably

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passport number! [issued in Riyadh.

Any chance you guys could run him and see what (if
anything) there is? Any help you could provide would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
-Tom

6/24/2004
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