CIA Passed cash to Anwar Al-Awlaki
Sunday, September 14, 2014 at 09:15PM NY TIMES
It was June 2010, and American intelligence agencies were desperate to track down Anwar al-Awlaki, the American cleric who had joined Al Qaeda and was believed to be plotting from the wilds of Yemen. But Awlaki had other things on his mind. From his hide-out, he sent an encrypted email to Morten Storm to thank him for dispatching to Yemen the Croatian convert to Islam who had become his third wife. She had turned out to be even “better than I expected and better than you described,” Awlaki wrote, adding a lascivious smiley face.
Like many of the colorful tales in “Agent Storm,” this might seem a figment of Storm’s imagination if not for the book’s appendix, which includes an image of Awlaki’s email, one of many items of corroboration.
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