Washington, August 26 (ANI): The CIA is demanding extensive cuts from a memoir about the September 11 attacks written by a former FBI agent, who spent years fighting the Taliban.
Several people who have read a manuscript of the book have said that agent, Ali H. Soufan argues that the CIA missed a chance to derail the 2001 plot by withholding information from the FBI about two future 9/11 hijackers living in San Diego.
Soufan has also given a firsthand account of the CIA's move to use brutal methods of interrogations. He also says the harsh methods used on the agency's first important captive, Abu Zubaydah, were unnecessary and counter productive.
Soufan, an Arabic-speaking counter terrorism agent, who played a central role in most major terrorism investigations between 1997 and 2005, has said he believes the cuts are intended not to protect national security, but to prevent him from recounting episodes that in his view reflect badly on the CIA, New York Times reports.
In a letter sent to the FBI's general counsel Valerie E. Caproni last week, Soufan's lawyer, David N. Kelley said 'credible sources have told Soufan that the agency has made a decision that this book should not be published because it will prove embarrassing to the agency'.
Soufan has called the CIA's redactions to his book 'ridiculous' but said he thought he would prevail in getting them restored for a later edition.
The book is scheduled to go on sale from September 12. The publisher of the book, W W Norton and Company, decided to proceed with a first printing incorporating all cuts as suggested by the CIA. (ANI)
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