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Consider The Source: Apply Salt Liberally
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Tue Sep 7 20:42:41 1999
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 02:13:57 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199909080013.CAA03761@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
>XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 07, 1999 17:04:22 ET XXXXX
>
>EX-CIA SPECIAL AGENT PROMISED PROTECTION IN WACO CASE; SAYS FEDS
>THREATENED HIM
>
>**World Exclusive**
>**Must Credit DRUDGE REPORT**
>
>A former CIA agent who claims knowledge of a Delta Force shoot-out at Waco
>has been
>promised protection by investigators for a Senate committee after threats
>were made on
>the former agent and his son by federal law enforcement officers.
>
>The intimidation of the witness occurred last week when FBI agents warned
>the witness
>-- face to face -- that he was in violation of his CIA confidentiality
>oath and could
>be charged with "risking national security."
>
>According to congressional sources, investigators for Sen. Chuck Grassley,
>R-Iowa, who
>heads a Senate Judiciary subcommittee with FBI oversight, have promised
>protection to
>former CIA Special Agent Gene Cullen -- if his bona fides check out.
>
>[A spokeswoman for Grassley says a vote by the full committee would be
>required to
>grant immunity; the process of checking Cullen's story is in the early
>stages.]
>
>Questions have been raised throughout official Washington about the nature
>of the
>threats made against the whistleblower and if FBI Director Louis Freeh was
>directly
>aware of the intimidation.
>
>"I don't know how Waco, Texas could possibly be a threat to 'national
>security,'" one
>alarmed congressional chairman told the DRUDGE REPORT.
>
>"Cullen was 'politely' reminded that he signed confidentiality papers when
>he was hired
>at the CIA," says one source.
>
>Cullen has told investigators that he was visited by agents after he
>granted an
>interview to the DALLAS MORNING NEWS two weeks ago.
>
>Cullen, who was in charge of coordinating intelligence in Somalia for the
>CIA, told the
>paper that he learned from Delta Force commandos that up to 10 members of
>the secret
>Army unit were "present, up front and close" in helping the FBI in the
>final assault on
>the Branch Davidian compound.
>
>But the DRUDGE REPORT has learned that Cullen did not tell the paper
>everything he
>knew.
>
>In the interview with the NEWS, Cullen stopped short of stating that Delta
>Force
>members admitted to him that they were involved in combat at Waco --
>information Cullen
>plans to reveal under oath before Congress!
>
>This much is now known:
>
>Cullen was served a subpoena by congressional investigators last week.
>
>Cullen has moved to a secret location and could not be reached for comment.
>
>Cullen has given an interview for the new film, WACO: A NEW REVELATION.
>
>On camera, the former CIA Special Agent states: Delta Force members said they
>participated in a shoot-out during the final assault on the Branch
>Davidian compound in
>Waco.
>
>FILED BY MATT DRUDGE
