Canestraro, a former agent for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Company realized from an FBI informant – code named CS-23 – that Al-Bayoumi secretly met with the 2 terrorists on the Center Jap Gourmand restaurant in Culver Metropolis as a part of “an operation directed by the Central Intelligence Company” on February 1, 2000.
One other FBI agent advised Canestraro the red-faced CIA is useless set on conserving the “operational” recordsdata in regards to the failed recruitment effort beneath wraps fearing a public backlash for permitting two identified Al Qaeda operatives to freely roam inside the USA.
Different FBI brokers claimed the CIA and their bosses on the FBI tried to suppress the hyperlink between the CIA and the two terrorist throughout their investigation into the actions of Al-Bayoumi following Sep 11 that left 2977 folks useless on the World Commerce Heart in New York and the Pentagon exterior Washington, D.C.