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Whistlerblower: 9/11 Hijackers' Visas Were Issued by Jeddah US Consulate/CIA

Submitted by HPI on Sat, 12/28/2013 - 23:10

YouTube introduction: J. Michael Springmann, formerly chief of the visa section at the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, testifies that he rejected hundreds of suspicious visa applications by Saudi Arabian men similar to those named as the 9/11 hijackers/patsies when he was head of the consular section of the US embassy in Jeddah, but CIA officers repeatedly overruled him and ordered the visas to be issued.

Uploaded February 17, 2008


 
Michael Springmann at National Press Club

June 10, 2002, Washington, DC


From above video's YouTube page:

Has someone been sitting on the FBI? [BBC] June 11, 2001

Thirteen of the 15 Saudi hijackers were issued visas to the United States, 10 of them at the US Consulate in Jeddah, according to US officials.
http://www.boston.com/news/packages/u...

Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis and Bin Laden before September 11
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/...

CBC News transcript
this operation in Jeddah was so peculiar, so strange, and it went against anything I had ever seen or heard in my 20 years in government, that I thought that what these people were telling me about CIA involvement with Osama, and with Afghanistan had to be true because nothing else would fit. By the attempts to cover me up and shut me down, this convinced me more and more that this was not a pipe-dream, this was not a machination, this was not a conspiracy theory.
Springman Interview

BBC News: MICHAEL SPRINGMAN:
In Saudi Arabia I was repeatedly ordered by high level State Dept officials to issue visas to unqualified applicants. These were, essentially, people who had no ties either to Saudi Arabia or to their own country. I complained bitterly at the time there. I returned to the US, I complained to the State Dept here, to the General Accounting Office, to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and to the Inspector General's office. I was met with silence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/new...

Michael Springman on Alex Jones Tv 1/4:
CIA Ordered Visas For 15 of The 19 9/11 Hijackers in Jeddah
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmjAg_...

9/11 Citizens' Commission - Michael Springman
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSebMj...

Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale terror attacks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world......

15 Hijackers Obtained Visas in Saudi Arabia
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-...... (bad link)

C.I.A. Was Tracking Hijacker Months Earlier Than It Had Said
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/us/......

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed secured a visa in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
http://articles.cnn.com/2004-08-22/po......

MICHAEL SPRINGMAN:
In Saudi Arabia I was repeatedly ordered by high level State Dept officials to issue visas to unqualified applicants. These were, essentially, people who had no ties either to Saudi Arabia or to their own country. I complained bitterly at the time there. I returned to the US, I complained to the State Dept here, to the General Accounting Office, to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and to the Inspector General's office. I was met with silence.

Source BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/new...

In one case, two Pakistanis apply for visas to attend a trade show in the US, but they are unable to name the trade show or city in which it will be held. When Springmann denies them a visa, he gets "an almost immediate call from a CIA case officer, hidden in the commercial section [of the consulate], that I should reverse myself and grant these guys a visa." Springmann refuses, but the decision is reversed by the chief of the consular section. Springmann realizes that even the ambassador, Walter Cutler, is aware of the situation, which becomes "more brazen and blatant" as time goes on. On one occasion Springmann is even told, "If you want a job in the State Department in future, you will change your mind."
Source: CBC Archive
http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpWESSEX/Documents/springmaninterview.htm (expired link)

Mike Springman -- US consulate and foreign service official

Springman went public (after internal efforts failed) to expose the State Dept/CIA conduiting terrorists into the US

More links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Springmann

http://www.911review.org/Sept11Wiki/Springman,JMichael.shtml

http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-131-j-michael-springmann/

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