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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (260445)	6/2/2002 6:52:16 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

FBI SUPERVISOR FRASCA'S ROLE INVESTIGATED boston.com Senators ask FBI what supervisor knew By Wayne Washington, Globe Staff, 5/25/2002 ASHINGTON - More details emerged late yesterday about a Minneapolis whistle-blower's letter as Senate investigators worked to determine whether an FBI supervisor was aware of both the investigation of accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and a memo warning before Sept. 11 about the danger of Middle Eastern men trying to attend US flying schools. The memo, from an agent in Phoenix, was sent to FBI headquarters last July, and Moussaoui was arrested in Minneapolis on immigration charges in August. In a letter to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III yesterday, three members of the Judiciary Committee, including Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who chairs the panel, asked the director to clarify the role of agent Dave Frasca, a supervisor in the FBI's Radical Fundamentalist Unit, before the Sept. 11 attacks. No individual or federal office is known to have been aware, before Sept. 11, of both the concerns that Minneapolis agents had about Moussaoui, and the worries of Phoenix FBI agent Kenneth Williams, who wanted the FBI to investigate the fact that so many Middle Eastern men were trying to get flight training in the United States. Judiciary Committee members want to know if Frasca was aware of both potential threats and have asked Mueller to tell them ''what connections, if any, he or others drew between the two ongoing investigations and whether he or others brought such a connection to the attention of higher level FBI officials.'' Frasca's role is the latest twist in an already politically damaging tale of what the Federal Bureau of Investigation knew before Sept. 11 and how it responded. The FBI declined to comment on Frasca's role <<Continues Online.....>>