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Thomas H. Kean
CHAIR
DOS INTERVIEW REQUEST NO. 9
Lee H. Hamilton
VICE CHAIR
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Richard Ben-Veniste
(the "Commission") requests interviews with the following Department
Max Cleland of State officials during the weeks of October 13, October 20, or
Fred F. Fielding
October 27. Please provide a proposed date, time, and location for these
interviews no later than October 9,2003, if possible. The anticipated
Jamie S. Gorelick length of each interview is two hours.
Slade Gorton
1. George Lannon
John Lehman
2. Catherine Barry
Timothy J. Roemer 3. Travis Farris
4. Karl Wycoff
James R, Thompson
5. Charles H. Brayshaw
6. Albert A. Thibault, Jr.
Philip D. Zelikow 7. Richard Baltimore
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
8. Arthur Mills
9. Carl Cockbum
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12. Thomas Krajeski
13. Michael Polt
14. Charisse Phillips
DOS interview
request no 9.doc...
Karl: Attached is DOS interview request no. 9. Please call Susan Ginsburg at
202-401-1747 with any questions about the topics to be covered and to make
arrangements for these interviews. Feel free to call Dan or me as well if any
issues arise. Thanks. Steve
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Background i
Who served at post with you and was involved, in visa processing, from whatever
agency? One-day overlap with Rob Waller. . ..
y' Interviews: If applicant's story about the reasons for travel to the U.S. were consistent
with cultural norms for Saudis, there was no reason to second guess the applicant.
Requests to interview a Saudi prompted question from the Saudi Foreign Ministry to
CG?
Numbers: 450 per day in busy season. 200 in low. Sometimes as few as 50 per day.
Also, no documentation required for students except for the 1-20. ~-\0*SC^
Junior Officer - EL HINN? - denying visas to Saudis telling them - apply next year from
a REAL SCHOOL. In contravention of CA policy.
] [said they interviewed 100% of first-time students, 80% of all students, and 5% of
/all other Saudi applicants.] True?
What intelligence did you have about the AQ presence in Saudi Arabia pre-9-11?
Did a Saudi visa applicant's travel to Iran, Pakistan or Afghanistan cause you any
concern pre 9-11? If so, what would you do in response? i
Knowledge about AQ
Did the visa system have a flag when the applicant had a previous visa from your post?
Was there any way the system checked the veracity of the applicant's statements?
Three hjs — Mihdhar, Saeed Al Ghamdi, and Hanjour (in 1998) -- lied on their
applications and said they had never applied for a visa previously,
• Would those "lies" have been of concern pre 9-11?
• If they had been noticed, would they have prompted greater scrutiny pre 9-11?
• What about since 9-11?
Issues in general
Hanjour
• Why a 1 997 application still existed?
" who wrote what on 9-10-00 application?
• Who circled the items and why?
• How would circled items be filled in, and by whom?
• Why not indicated refused under 22 1 (g) on app?
• On 9-25-00 app, who wrote what?
• On 9-1 0-00 app, applicant signs, on 9-25, applicant and preparer sign and are the
same - an issue?
• Put down going to flight school, put down same thing in 1997 - If known, would
have caused denial?
• Fact had B visa from 1 99 1 , and had been admitted in 1 996 as a prospective
student then an issue that could have caused denial?
• Fact had applied for two F-l visas to go to ELS an issue?
• Fact had applied for an M-l visa in 1998 (and was ultimately approved in 1-01) -
in other words, had a change of status PENDING ~ would have affected visa
application?
Saeed Al Ghamdi
Two applications like KAM - Not detected
Ahmed Ai Nami
Signature in wrong place.
Al Haznawi
Has circles indicating what?
Al Omari
Married - unusual or an issue?
Wail Al Shehri
No "source" -- Unusual
Mohand Al Shehri
Ahmed Al Ghamdi
Often someone else who filled it out in office for the applicant?
In general, confusion?
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