FBI Notified CIA Had Prior Knowledge of 9/11Attacks in 2001
Gary S. Bekkum
August 15, 2011
In September 2001, Dan Throop Smith, son of Eisenhower and Nixon White House Advisor, reported on his friend from CIA to Baltimore FBI. Now former national terrorism advisor Richard Clarke comes forward with a conspiracy theory of CIA cover-up over al Qaida operatives.
(STARpod.org) -- Who exactly in the CIA knew about two al Qaida operatives arriving in California, and why did they withhold the information from the FBI?
That appears to be the core question underlying the CIA conspiracy theory of Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism advisor. Daily Beast broke the story of Clarke's CIA theory, after hearing part of an interview Clarke made for a 9/11 tenth anniversary documentary.
During the interview Clarke suggests CIA deliberately withheld information from the FBI concerning two Saudi-born terrorists who had entered the United States. Clarke suggests CIA may have been trying to recruit the terrorists to become CIA operatives, and when the recruitment failed, senior CIA officers ordered that the information be withheld from the FBI and members of the Bush White House.
Terrorists may not have been the only targets of recruitment.
As first reported by STARpod.org and reprinted in the book Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape, the son of the late Eisenhower and Nixon White House advisor Dan Throop Smith reported to the FBI in September 2001 that his friend, a well-placed analyst from the CIA, appeared to have had prior knowledge of the September 11 attacks. Smith reported Pandolfi's apparent "prior knowledge" of the 9/11 attacks to the FBI.
According to Pulitzer Prize winning articles from the New York Times, Dan Smith's friend, Ronald (Ron) S. Pandolfi, was previously at the center of another White House controversy over the sharing of rocket science with China.
Smith claims that Pandolfi called a meeting of "The Aquarium" -- allegedly a loosely organized group of like-minded individuals in and out of government circles with an agenda focused on the alleged impending end of modern civilization -- days prior to the September 11 attacks. Smith claims Pandolfi seemed to have been aware of an imminent major event.
Smith reflected on the apparent conspiracy of coincidences at his blog.
"I had a series of rather interesting communications with Ron [Pandolfi] between Sept.1st and 16th of 2001, including extended meetings on each of the specified days. The general nature of these interactions led me, in accordance with my long established 'Chicken Little' protocol, to, subsequently and publicly, raise the issue of prior knowledge [of the 9/11 attacks]. No one, even including myself, took this terribly seriously...until now? The abortive reactivation of the Aquarium around 9/11 seemed like a fluke, suspicious though it was."
A few days later, Smith felt compelled to make an official report concerning his suspicions, and contacted the local field office of the FBI in Baltimore, where he met with a female Special Agent.
On the morning of September 11, Smith's sister, a good friend of Nancy Bush Ellis, the sister of President George H.W. Bush, arrived at Logan International Airport -- unaware that the 9/11 hijackers had boarded American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, with the intention of taking control of the planes and crashing them into the World Trade Center in New York City. Shortly after the planes hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Smith says his sister was on the phone to the senior President Bush, after the flight she was on was diverted by the emergency shutdown of US air space.
But the phone rang it was CIA's Ron Pandolfi, not his sister, on the other end of the line.
Smith would later attempt to clarify the details of that morning phone conversation with Pandolfi.
"Ron now denies that the FBI has ever called him, concerning these allegations, contradicting what I have stated many times, since," wrote Smith, following his 'outing' of Pandolfi on the popular late night Coast to Coast AM talk radio program. "He did spend about half an hour reviewing the events of 9/11, from his personal perspective. You'll recall that he claimed, in his 10:30am call to me, that he was the last person in an evacuated building, and was watching the smoke rise over the Pentagon. This claim always seemed somewhat contradictory to me, but I made no great effort to surmise any more detail, and it never occurred to me that it might be the [CIA] Langley/McLean HQ. Too far to where the smoke was, and very unlikely to be so evacuated. True on the first count, wrong on the second!"
Smith continues, "While Ron was on the phone with me, he could hear other phones ringing nearby, but did not attempt to run to answer them. Not long after he got off the phone with me, a call did come through on his phone from the White House. The person identified himself as the director of the White House situation room. Neither one knew the other. The Director asked him to identify himself. Ron gave his position on the National Intelligence Council, working for [General] Landry under [Deputy CIA Director John] Gannon who came under [Director of Central Intelligence] George Tenet, at that time. The Director asked what he was doing. Ron said that he refrained from telling him that he had just gotten off the phone with the CIA's eschatologist [Smith views himself as an official consultant to Pandolfi], and said that he was by himself in the CIA situation room, watching the government monitors -- thus the smoke that he reported to me."
According to Smith, based upon the alleged account given by Pandolfi, "The White House Director asked him [Pandolfi] to relay the President's instructions to [DCI] Tenet. It happened that Ron was sometimes driven by Tenet's driver, and had his cell phone number. This was the only line of communication between the POTUS and his Intelligence Director, on that crucial day." ...
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(STARpod.org) -- Who exactly in the CIA knew about two al Qaida operatives arriving in California, and why did they withhold the information from the FBI?
That appears to be the core question underlying the CIA conspiracy theory of Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism advisor. Daily Beast broke the story of Clarke's CIA theory, after hearing part of an interview Clarke made for a 9/11 tenth anniversary documentary.
During the interview Clarke suggests CIA deliberately withheld information from the FBI concerning two Saudi-born terrorists who had entered the United States. Clarke suggests CIA may have been trying to recruit the terrorists to become CIA operatives, and when the recruitment failed, senior CIA officers ordered that the information be withheld from the FBI and members of the Bush White House.
Terrorists may not have been the only targets of recruitment.
As first reported by STARpod.org and reprinted in the book Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape, the son of the late Eisenhower and Nixon White House advisor Dan Throop Smith reported to the FBI in September 2001 that his friend, a well-placed analyst from the CIA, appeared to have had prior knowledge of the September 11 attacks. Smith reported Pandolfi's apparent "prior knowledge" of the 9/11 attacks to the FBI.
According to Pulitzer Prize winning articles from the New York Times, Dan Smith's friend, Ronald (Ron) S. Pandolfi, was previously at the center of another White House controversy over the sharing of rocket science with China.
Smith claims that Pandolfi called a meeting of "The Aquarium" -- allegedly a loosely organized group of like-minded individuals in and out of government circles with an agenda focused on the alleged impending end of modern civilization -- days prior to the September 11 attacks. Smith claims Pandolfi seemed to have been aware of an imminent major event.
Smith reflected on the apparent conspiracy of coincidences at his blog.
"I had a series of rather interesting communications with Ron [Pandolfi] between Sept.1st and 16th of 2001, including extended meetings on each of the specified days. The general nature of these interactions led me, in accordance with my long established 'Chicken Little' protocol, to, subsequently and publicly, raise the issue of prior knowledge [of the 9/11 attacks]. No one, even including myself, took this terribly seriously...until now? The abortive reactivation of the Aquarium around 9/11 seemed like a fluke, suspicious though it was."
A few days later, Smith felt compelled to make an official report concerning his suspicions, and contacted the local field office of the FBI in Baltimore, where he met with a female Special Agent.
On the morning of September 11, Smith's sister, a good friend of Nancy Bush Ellis, the sister of President George H.W. Bush, arrived at Logan International Airport -- unaware that the 9/11 hijackers had boarded American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, with the intention of taking control of the planes and crashing them into the World Trade Center in New York City. Shortly after the planes hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Smith says his sister was on the phone to the senior President Bush, after the flight she was on was diverted by the emergency shutdown of US air space.
But the phone rang it was CIA's Ron Pandolfi, not his sister, on the other end of the line.
Smith would later attempt to clarify the details of that morning phone conversation with Pandolfi.
"Ron now denies that the FBI has ever called him, concerning these allegations, contradicting what I have stated many times, since," wrote Smith, following his 'outing' of Pandolfi on the popular late night Coast to Coast AM talk radio program. "He did spend about half an hour reviewing the events of 9/11, from his personal perspective. You'll recall that he claimed, in his 10:30am call to me, that he was the last person in an evacuated building, and was watching the smoke rise over the Pentagon. This claim always seemed somewhat contradictory to me, but I made no great effort to surmise any more detail, and it never occurred to me that it might be the [CIA] Langley/McLean HQ. Too far to where the smoke was, and very unlikely to be so evacuated. True on the first count, wrong on the second!"
Smith continues, "While Ron was on the phone with me, he could hear other phones ringing nearby, but did not attempt to run to answer them. Not long after he got off the phone with me, a call did come through on his phone from the White House. The person identified himself as the director of the White House situation room. Neither one knew the other. The Director asked him to identify himself. Ron gave his position on the National Intelligence Council, working for [General] Landry under [Deputy CIA Director John] Gannon who came under [Director of Central Intelligence] George Tenet, at that time. The Director asked what he was doing. Ron said that he refrained from telling him that he had just gotten off the phone with the CIA's eschatologist [Smith views himself as an official consultant to Pandolfi], and said that he was by himself in the CIA situation room, watching the government monitors -- thus the smoke that he reported to me."
According to Smith, based upon the alleged account given by Pandolfi, "The White House Director asked him [Pandolfi] to relay the President's instructions to [DCI] Tenet. It happened that Ron was sometimes driven by Tenet's driver, and had his cell phone number. This was the only line of communication between the POTUS and his Intelligence Director, on that crucial day." ...
ARTICLE CONTINUES AT STARpod.org
Copyright (c) 2011 by STARstream Research / STARpod.org -- All rights reserved.
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