CIA seeks Saudi help in spying: paper

Published December 4, 2001

CAIRO, Dec 3: The US Central Intelligence Agency has asked for Saudi Arabia’s help in spying on meetings between “terrorist leaders” in Makkah at the end of February, Egyptian journalist Hassanein Heikal wrote in the Wegehat Nazar daily on Monday.

The CIA has asked the Saudi authorities to lend facilities to keep watch during Haj this year, having learned from their own sources that terrorist leaders plan to rendezvous at the holy sites, wrote Heikal.—AFP

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