Then, crickets. She is reportedly now married to Michael Scheuer, who recently. Eleven years and 10 months. On Monday, a human rights group in Germany filed a complaint in federal court against Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, a CIA agent known as the "Queen of Torture," containing proof of her involvement in the kidnapping and torture of German citizen Khaled El Masri. FBI log books proved Bikowsky's claim false. In reference to the episode, he referred to the film Zero Dark Thirty.[20]. Presents papers from the conference: "CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991" at Princeton University on 9-10 March 2001. was given information that might very well have prevented the 9/11 attacks; she gleefully participated in torture sessions afterward; she misinterpreted intelligence in such a way that it sent the C.I.A. editor John Cook, a transparency die-hard who would get caught up in the famed Hulk Hogan lawsuit that brought down his outlet. We took a look at a story about Masri published that year by the Associated Press, headlined “CIA Officers Make Grave Mistakes, Get Promoted.” That article by Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo blamed Masri’s mistaken “rendition” on a woman they called “Frances,” clarifying, “The AP agreed to the CIA’s request to refer to Frances by her middle name because her first is unusual.”. Check. Those articles spotlighted allegations of “malfeasance and misfeasance” in the run up to the 9/11 attacks, made to us, by the former White House counterterror adviser, Richard Clarke. Maybe you should reach out to [Bush administration CIA “outer”] Scooter Libby? The person described by both NBC and The New Yorker is senior CIA officer Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. The next day we returned to our day jobs. The identity of the station’s former leader, Rich Blee, had yet to be reported to the public in any major media. You are heroes; at least mine:-)”. The documentary focused on the CIA's Bin Laden Issue Station before 9/11 and how certain CIA officials blocked information on future 9/11 hijackers from reaching the FBI. Casey's supervisor, identified by O'Connor and Nowosielski as Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, would later tell investigators working for the 2002 joint congressional intelligence inquiry into 9/11 that she had personally delivered al-Midhar's visa information to FBI headquarters, a statement proven false when the investigators checked the FBI . "[13] It was reported in 2011 that Bikowsky had been promoted to the head of the CIA's Global Jihad unit. We became more confident. Bikowsky's identity is not publicly acknowledged by the Agency but was deduced by independent investigative journalists in 2011. Set in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, The Only Thing Worth Dying For chronicles the untold story of the team of Green Berets led by Captain Jason Amerine that conquered the Taliban and helped bring Hamid Karzai to power in Afghanistan. After Mohammed was captured, the woman, who headed the Al Qaeda unit in the CTC, was so excited she flew at government expense to the black site where Mohammed was held so that she could personally watch him being waterboarded. After the AP’s report about her ordered kidnapping of the innocent Khaled El Masri, that mistaken “rendition” had been determined in 2012 by a rare historic unanimous court judgment to be a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights’ prohibition on torture and inhuman or degrading treatment. . Moreover, Bikowsky has already been publicly identified by news organizations as the CIA officer responsible for many of these acts.”, Consider this: Prior to her naming, there were subtle references to Bikowsky in the reports of Congress’ intelligence committees, the blue-ribbon 9/11 commission, the Justice Department’s inspector general, and the CIA’s inspector general, as well as the CIA IG’s redacted “torture” reports, Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book ", and several other prominent news stories. Alec Station. [16] She was the direct supervisor of Michael Anne Casey, a CIA staff operations officer who was assigned to track future 9/11 hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar at an al-Qaeda operatives' meeting in Malaysia in early January 2000. Such matters were often de facto after events like these, perhaps not a reason to assume the worst. their public communications branch for many more years. Gov. In the months leading up to the release of the torture report, the CIA and the White House fought to prevent the Senate even from assigning pseudonyms to the CIA officers whose actions are chronicled in the report. [14], In 2015, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, a German non-profit human rights organization, filed a criminal complaint in Germany asking for a federal criminal investigation of Bikowsky for the rendition and torture of El-Masri. CIA Inspector General's Report on Engagement with the Entertainment Industry. Casey's supervisor, identified by O'Connor and Nowosielski as Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, would later tell investigators working for the 2002 joint congressional intelligence inquiry into 9/11 that she had personally delivered al-Midhar's visa information to FBI headquarters, a statement proven false when the investigators checked the FBI . Alfreda Frances Bikowsky (born 1965) is a Central Intelligence Agency officer who has headed the Bin Laden Issue Station and the Global Jihad unit. For our parts, we again tried in vain to bring attention to this issue in summer 2014 when we were invited to, at the hacker and whistleblower conference HOPE X in New York City. James Corbett The Corbett Report 21 September, 2011. [14] Bikowsky received no reprimand for the incident, because then-CIA Director Michael Hayden said he didn't want to deter the initiative of counter-terrorism employees. Come to think of it, all 3 came fr. [10], Ken Silverstein reported that Bikowsky was a top candidate to be CIA Deputy Chief of Station in Baghdad in 2007. Michael Scheuer, The CIA's Bulldog & Adversary Of Osama Bin Laden. Alfreda Frances Bikowsky and Michael Anne Casey, who was the basis for the redhead in Zero Dark Thirty, and FBI agents Mark Rossini and Doug Miller, who were detailed from the Bureau to the CIA. Cheney had an interview on Fox News trying to defend . Our webmaster had been aware of the issue regarding naming Bikowsky and our ultimate decision to hold off on releasing it, but in the midst of preparing multiple documents for the site, one letter he posted remained unredacted. They planned to be the first to reveal the identity of two CIA agents, including Bikowsky, who had previously only been identified as "Frances" in an AP news story from 2011 or as a red-headed CIA agent in Jane Mayer's The Dark Side. Her red-haired supervisor was a woman named Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. [12], In 2008, Jane Mayer reported that Bikowsky held "a top post handling sensitive matters in the Middle East. At the heart of this book is a mystery: Why did key 9/11 plotters Khalid Al Mihdhar and Nawaf Al Hazmi, operating inside the United States, fall onto the radars of so many US agencies without any of those agencies succeeding in stopping the ... For our parts, we again tried in vain to bring attention to this issue in summer 2014 when we were invited to give a presentation at the hacker and whistleblower conference HOPE X in New York City. At long last came Glenn Greenwald, the man Edward Snowden had chosen to bring his NSA revelations to the public only a year and a half prior, along with Peter Maass, whose piece late that year was aptly named, is naming Bikowsky over CIA objections because of her key role in misleading Congress about the agency’s use of torture, and her active participation in the torture program (including playing a direct part in the torture of at least one innocent detainee). The Intercept is naming Bikowsky over CIA objections because of her key role in misleading Congress about the agency’s use of torture, and her active participation in the torture program (including playing a direct part in the torture of at least one innocent detainee). Alfreda is a 50-year-old, top-level CIA official who allegedly played a key role in failing to give the FBI critical information that could have led to the capture of the 9/11 hijackers before they attacked; pushed successfully to keep an innocent man in a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan; and went to watch torture sessions, according to published reports and sources. She was a high-level CIA official. You can either play the role of a compliant enterpriser or inquirer, or of an adaptive enterpriser or inquirer. Follow on Twitter @BarkWatchdogs Learn more at the web site, ------------------------------------------, "The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror". And then she falsely told congressional overseers that the torture worked.” Mayer also wrote that the officer is “the same woman” identified in the Senate report who oversaw “the months-long rendition and gruesome interrogation of another detainee whose detention was a case of mistaken identity.”. Alfreda Bikowsky had been the person most credited internally at the Obama White House with the successful assassination of Usama Bin Laden only months prior in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Golson would go on to. Several CIA directors, three presidents, the Senate and House intelligence committees, inspectors general, a host of international, federal and local prosecutors and America’s “fourth estate?” How had they all failed in her case? At some point, one of our interviewees made us aware that one of Blee’s key managers was the same woman responsible for the high-profile kidnapping of an innocent German several years prior, Khaled el Masri. Where were all the people who were supposed to ensure oversight and accountability? Then we would announce a campaign to pressure the U.S. government to themselves reveal the CIA employee. We did not expect the CIA to be thrilled that we wanted to tell the story of their pre-9/11 failures, revealing names of employees working from their headquarters in the process, but we certainly did not expect to be threatened. Published on Oct 21, 2015. Article: Meet Alfreda Bikowsky, The Senior Officer At The Center Of The CIA's Torture Scandals - The person described by both NBC and The New Yorker is senior CIA officer Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. Only history will show the success or failure of his endeavor. Through Our Enemies' Eyes focuses on what extremists such as bin Laden have said and done and estimates the impact of those words and deeds on the Muslim world. We took a look at a story about Masri published that year by the Associated Press, headlined “CIA Officers Make Grave Mistakes, Get Promoted.”, by Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo blamed Masri’s mistaken “rendition” on a woman they called “Frances,” clarifying, “The AP agreed to the CIA’s request to refer to Frances by her middle name because her first is unusual.”. This is not a conspiracy theory or the speculation of uninformed people. Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, a manager at Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, argues that el-Masri should be rendered to Afghanistan. As we each arrived at our homes that evening, we half expected federal agents waiting to question us. Producer-writer Ray Nowosielski made his documentary debut directing Press For Truth in 2006. He imparted to us that she had become an “open secret” in Washington among human rights advocates, national security attorneys, reporters and others. During the calls, he attempted to engage in long conversations about the ethics and legality associated with naming the individuals. " Thus begins this powerful story as Najwa bin Laden, who married her cousin Osama bin Laden at the age of 15 to become his first wife and the mother to eleven of his children, and her son, Omar bin Laden, the fourth-born son of Osama bin ... Decades in the making, this is an outrageous, darkly riveting account of the life and actions of R. Kelly, and their horrible impact on dozens of girls, by the only person to tell it. [14] She was characterized as a "top CIA official," equivalent to a general in the military. Maybe they would take you/us on now. It would probably be nobodies like us. In an interview, Litt voiced frustration with the continued focus on Clapper and said he has sought only to be straightforward in his dealings with Congress. [27] In the dramatization, she is depicted as being one of the two people primarily responsible for the lack of intelligence sharing between the FBI and CIA in the lead up to 9/11. "She thought it would be cool to be in the room," a former colleague said. The book also looks at the findings of the four main 9/11 investigations, claiming they omitted key facts and were blind to the purposefulness of the wrongdoing they investigated. Her name is Alfreda Frances Bikowsky and she is the current director […] [8]:284–5​ El-Masri was eventually released in late May on a country road in Albania. As we continued interviewing insiders, we casually used the names Rich Blee and Alfreda Bikowsky while describing actions alleged to have been taken by figures fitting their descriptions in articles and reports. After twelve days of consideration, the plan we came up with was simple. The executive summary of the torture report released by the Senate last week provides abundant documentation that the CIA repeatedly and deliberately misled Congress about multiple aspects of its interrogation program. The first few times we dropped those names, we did so nervously, knowing there was a good possibility that our interviewees might chastise us for our incorrect information. The entry describes her as a “career Central Intelligence Agency officer who has headed . The CIA’s media rep called us several more times in a period of days to ask if we had made a decision. He was told, “This is now a legal matter.” Leopold’s sources inside the Justice Department, he told us, informed him an investigation had been opened. Follow on Twitter @BarkWatchdogs Learn more at the web site https://watchdogsbark.com/. CIA's Queen of Torture Married to Former CIA Official Who Urges War Between . to be ready to take up arms on his behalf. Was bin Laden surrendering? He began multiple emails to us with the words, “What follows is. A follow-up New Yorker article dubbed her “The Unidentified Queen of Torture” and in part “the model for the lead character in ‘Zero Dark Thirty.’” Yet in both articles she was anonymous. Kevin Fenton interview. Fenton had poured over the paperwork generated by various government reports and come across the name “Rich Blee” in the margins. If you don’t want to do it, don’t. The plan however had a less than 5% chance of succeeding and it thus it never was deployed. As we each arrived at our homes that evening, we half expected federal agents waiting to question us. That is the amount of time that passed between Bikowsky’s first of many alleged acts of criminality — the potential for obstruction of justice charges over her involvement in the December 2000 withholding of information requested by FBI criminal investigator Ali Soufan into the bombing of the USS Cole — until the date the public could identify her. We only know you are Alfreda Bikowsky because of journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has problems with authority. The 'Dynamite' Pentagon Interview Behind 'Zero Dark Thirty' Bin Laden Burial took place on Top Gun ship. He was told, “This is now a legal matter.” Leopold’s sources inside the Justice Department, he told us, informed him an investigation had been opened. CIA's Queen of Torture Married to Former CIA Official Who Urges War Between . By centering "human capital" and providing more pathways to work and residency for higher-skilled migrants, despite lower-skilled migrant workers having a far greater desire to temporarily migrate and permanently settle, Canada is able to continually reap the benefits of both high-skilled and low-skilled labor . "[3], In late January 2004, Bikowsky, as head of the Bin Laden Issue Station, made the decision to extraordinarily render Khalid El-Masri to Afghanistan for four months without any evidence in hand. Who is Richard Blee (podcast) Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. "[3][4][5], Bikowsky married her former boss Michael Scheuer in December 2014. Guys, it is your call. Eleven years and 10 months. As far as is known, Alfreda Bikowsky still heads to work every day at CIA headquarters. CNN's terrorism analyst examines Osama bin Laden's global terrorist network, al-Queda, discussing its operations and mission, the planning and execution of specific terrorist acts, and future threats from militant Islamic movements. Check. Nearly 10 years later, in August 2011, two news articles attributed to our investigation came out in online articles by Philip Shenon in the, . [8]:273​ The station was closed in late 2005. If you want to go for it, tell [Chelsea Manning] that Kevin says hi ... An ally connected us with Ben Wizner, founder of the ACLU’s National Security Project, soon to be a principal legal adviser to Edward Snowden. In the account, bin Laden appears neither to surrender nor to directly challenge the Special Forces troops who killed his son and two associates while working their way to his third-floor apartment. The only portion that may apply is under section C, as “pattern of activities” is very vague. When Bikowsky’s identity first emerged, John Cook had contacted Mayer about it, and she had responded at the time, “I identified everyone I felt was appropriate in my book, and am sorry not to be of more help but need to leave it at that.”. Germany's Code of Crimes against International Law does not require the accused to be in Germany or the crime to have been committed there. Co-founder of the media production company Banded Artists, he also was a senior producer for Globalvision. The 'Dynamite' Pentagon Interview Behind 'Zero Dark Thirty' Bin Laden Burial took place on Top Gun ship. Alfreda Frances Bikowsky: The Current Director of the CIA Global Jihad Unit September 21, 2011 BoilingFrogsPost.com Boiling Frogs Post has now confirmed the identity of the CIA analyst at the heart of a notorious failure in the run-up to the September 11th tragedy. is a new book from John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski, through Skyhorse Publishing’s HotBooks. (Maya is either a composite character, or based partly on the real-life CIA career of Alfreda Frances Bikowsky.) This was the first time we had seen our work as independent journalists published in well-read outlets. The Pro-Trump CIA Man: QAnon Madness and Upward Failure Photograph Source: Marc Nozell - CC BY 2.0 by JEFFERSON MORLEY-JULY 21, 2020 Michael Scheur is a pure product of the CIA. We asked if Bikowsky's statement to the congressional . In Troll Nation, journalist Amanda Marcotte outlines how Trump was the inevitable result of American conservatism’s degradation into an ideology of blind resentment. Copyright © 2021 Salon.com, LLC. Moreover, Bikowsky has already been publicly identified by news organizations as the CIA officer responsible for many of these acts.”. That means Alfreda Frances Bikowsky was instrumental in covering up 9/11 and torturing people to get false confessions about it. Alfreda Frances Bikowsky it seems is "the " CIA person who stifled the FBI attempts to report info on Khalid al-Mahdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. READ MORE: Another American happy warrior laid to rest: John McCain's legacy of gung-ho militarism. We can see the tentacles of the CIA when it steps in to attempt to stop the publication of certain stories, however, as when the agency threatened independent documentary filmmakers John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski from publishing the names of two recently identified CIA agents, Alfreda Frances Bikowsky and Michael Anne Casey. I want to primarily talk about how important it is to acknowledge that we were lied to about 9/11, and how important it is for those with . By precedent, it had never been applied to journalists. Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, who was . Fate, apparently, had other intentions. In fact, earlier this year, The Washington Post identified Bikowsky by name, describing her as a CIA analyst “who was tied to a critical intelligence-sharing failure before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the botched 2003 ‘rendition’ of an innocent German citizen thought to be an al-Qaeda operative.” That Post report led to both McClatchy and independent journalist Marcy Wheeler raising questions about the propriety of Bikowsky’s former personal lawyer, Robert Litt, playing a key role in his current capacity as a top government lawyer in deciding which parts of the torture report should be released. Arar was sent to Syria, where he was tortured and held for almost one year. Found inside – Page iiThis book analyzes Hollywood storytelling that features an American crimefighter—whether cop, detective, or agent—who must safeguard society and the nation by any means necessary. . the intelligence identities protection act. Bikowsky has been identified as "the redheaded former Soviet analyst who had been in the Bin Laden Unit during Michael Scheuer's supervision"[8]:273​ in Jane Mayer's book, The Dark Side. Our webmaster had been aware of the issue regarding naming Bikowsky and our ultimate decision to hold off on releasing it, but in the midst of preparing multiple documents for the site, one letter he posted remained unredacted. Cross-referenced against what little public information was available about the former Alec Station manager, Fenton believed this Blee was the one alluded to vaguely in reports. The legendary Jane Mayer brought further attention to Cole’s story with a brief piece in the New Yorker entitled “The Unidentified Queen of Torture.” Yet she too refused to use the name. UPDATE (Sep. 22nd): It has now been confirmed that the name of the "Frances" referred to in this article is not Audrey Tomason, as originally speculated, but Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. Our phone rang, and at the other end of the line was an agency spokesperson, Preston Golson. CIA 'Queen of Torture' May Face Prosecution in Germany. John Duffy, producer of Press for Truth, conducted interviews used in this report. In January 2014, the Washington Post named her and tied her to a pre-9/11 intelligence failure and the . We felt the blood rush to our heads. I am on the other side of the pond, I doubt they would do a rendition from the Czech Republic. "Zero Dark Thirty" based its female heroine on the now-revealed "queen of torture" Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, supposedly tireless in her efforts to capture bin Laden but who actually tortured innocents, lied to Congress and previously had dropped the ball on evidence that might have helped prevent the 9/11 attacks. A veteran CIA counter-terrorism analyst provides a sobering analysis of the U.S. Iraqi War policy while making unsettling predictions about how American security will be affected by the conflict, in a report that reveals how America's ... Stepping away to do a Google search for the name “Alfreda Bikowsky,” we discovered it, freshly posted, on the transparency website Cryptome run by John Young, sometimes referred to as “the original WikiLeaks.” The page linked back to our own site, where we saw the accidentally posted email to CIA. . Ok, so I read a Glenn Greenwald (with Peter Mass) article at the Intercept and my jaw dropped. We learned then that she was responsible for more than “just” the 9/11 failure and the mistaken rendition of Masri. (pp319;456) (pp109;479,n.2) [9] Casey blocked a draft cable written by Doug Miller, an FBI agent detailed to the Bin Laden Issue Station, to the FBI warning that al-Mihdhar had a multiple-entry visa for travel to the U.S.[17][18]:240​ Mark Rossini, another FBI agent first assigned to the Bin Laden Issue Station in 1999,[18]:233​ testified that Casey also verbally ordered him to not share information with FBI headquarters about al-Mihdhar or Nawaf al-Hazmi, who was traveling with al-Mihdhar. “Ray,” Golson insisted, “you said in your first email that we should take appropriate steps to ensure their safety. We would censor the name in our audio documentary, replacing each mention of Bikowsky with a robo-voice calling her “Frances” so audiences would know precisely where information was being withheld. [22], In 2011, independent journalists Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy planned to release an audio documentary entitled Who is Rich Blee? SALON ® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. last couple of years as a woman named Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. In a follow-up voicemail he added: “There are crazy people in this world and we are trying to mitigate those threats.”. She is also a basis for the character Diane Marsh (portrayed by Wrenn Schmidt) in the Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower (2018). [W]ithout names, or even pseudonyms, it is almost impossible to piece together the puzzle, or hold anyone in the American government accountable. Found insideWho is spying on us and why? Here are the answers. The report listed three other claims Bikowsky made in that hearing, calling them all inaccurate. to be a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights’ prohibition on torture and inhuman or degrading treatment. We felt the blood rush to our heads. We were worried nonetheless. 601. . From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America and the West lost their way, and at the struggles of their respective governments to reclaim the moral authority on which their ... “I don’t know that. In this spellbinding book, two top Washington reporters trace the origins of the Iran-contra affair and the unraveling of the Reagan presidency, taking us deep inside a white house that care more for stagecraft than statecraft and that ... El-Masri, who was revealed to be innocent, claimed to have been tortured by the agency.” El-Masri, a German citizen who was kidnapped from Macedonia and tortured by the CIA in Afghanistan, was released in 2003 after it was revealed he was not involved in al Qaeda. After all the hoopla surrounding the CIA’s threats to us. A succession of phone calls and emails followed over several days, each initiated by Golson. Bikowsky’s name, and her long string of controversial actions, have become such an open secret that she even has her own lengthy, The CIA’s arguments focus on an undefined threat to her safety. . Alec Station. The story was soon picked up by several more prominent news sites, including that of the Washington Post, The Atlantic and an analysis by Pulitzer finalist Anthony Summers. Unusual first name? [7][8]:282–3​[14] El-Masri's name was a different transliteration of Khalid al-Masri, the name of a person who had supposedly met Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Marwan al-Shehhi on a train in Germany. After explaining how central this woman was to the report and that she was still working in an important position, Cole added, “NBC News is withholding her name at the request of the CIA, which cited a climate of fear and retaliation in the wake of the release of the committee’s report in asking that her anonymity be protected.” Their TV division never aired it. 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