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With Drawal Notice: Memorandum For The Record and Prep Material For in Terview With Don Petterson
With Drawal Notice: Memorandum For The Record and Prep Material For in Terview With Don Petterson
With Drawal Notice: Memorandum For The Record and Prep Material For in Terview With Don Petterson
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BY DAVID ROSE
© VANITY FAIR
Repinted from Vanity Fair (New York) January 2002, No. 497, pp.50-56
From the autumn of 1996 until just weeks before the 2001 attacks, the Sudanese government
made numerous efforts to share this information with the United States all of which were
rebuffed. On several occasions, senior agents at the F.B.I, wished to accept these offers, but
were apparently overruled by President Clinton's secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, and hi
assistant secretary fcM^Ajnc^^usgnRice, both of whom would not comment for this story afte
repeated requests for interviews. Vanity Fair has obtained letters and secret memorandums th
document these approaches. They were made directly to the State Department and the F.B.I.,
and also via a series of well-connected U.S. citizens who tried to warn America that the
Sudanese offers were serious and significant.
By definition, September 11 was an intelligence failure. As the C.I.A. man puts It, We didn't kn
it was going to happen." Some of the reasons for that failure were structural, systemic: the
shortage of Arabic-speaking agents, the inability of C.I.A. officers to go underground in
Afghanistan.
This one was more specific. CE Had U.S. agencies examined the AF Mukhabarat files when tl
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