University of Oklahoma Confirms Assignment of CIA Agent Edger to Campus

Michael P. Wright —
Norman, Oklahoma USA
mpwright9@aol.com

In my article summarizing my comprehensive 9/11 investigation, online at BellaCiao, I mention the fact that University of Oklahoma president David Boren, mentor of George Tenet, brought CIA agent David Edger to that campus during the summer of 2001. Edger had been director of both military and civilian intelligence activities in Germany for the US. This gave him responsibility for surveillance over the Hamburg Al Qaeda cell and suggests that he had contact with the Able Danger unit, of Army Intelligence, at the Pentagon.

The Able Danger unit has recently been called to public attention by Congressman Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania Republican, who disclosed that by the year 1999 the unit had already identified Mohammed Atta and three other Al Qaeda members who later became 9/11 hijackers. Weldon said that in September 2000 the unit recommended that its information on the hijackers be given to the FBI "so they could bring that cell in and take out the terrorists." However, Weldon said Pentagon lawyers rejected the recommendation because they said Atta and the others were in the country legally.

Of high interest in consideration of Edger’s presence at OU is that Boren is the former US Senator who, according to TIME magazine, was having a "leisurely breakfast" with George Tenet at a Washington hotel on the morning of the 9/11 attack. Boren, who had been Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, also teaches a political science class at OU.

In the summer of 2001, Boren had arranged for Edger to be appointed as a "visiting professor" to the OU political science department. This was announced in the department newsletter of fall 2001, which was online temporarily but was taken later down from the internet. Using the "wayback" archive, I was able to locate the newsletter which confirms Edger’s CIA identity. Go here to see it:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021104...

In order to ask him about a report by Al Jazeera, I obtained Edger’s email address from the OU political science department in 2003. US News (9/23/02) had reported an Al Jazeera interview with Ramzi Bin Al Shibh, paymaster for the 9/11 hijacking operation. Al Shibh described an August 2001 coded chat room message among Al Qaeda members. Al Shibh had been based in Hamburg. The content was:

"The first semester starts in three weeks. Nothing has changed. Everything is fine. ...This summer will surely be hot...Nineteen certificates for private study and four exams."

Since Edger was director of US intelligence activities in Germany in 2001, it is reasonable to expect that his duties included intercepting messages of this nature. I emailed him and asked him if had intercepted it.

Agent Edger did not answered the question. Since he is retired and has already publicly admitted to having failed to prevent the 9/11 attack, he would have nothing to lose by answering, if the true answer were no. Since he chose not to answer, we are led to the strong suspicion that the true answer was yes . His admission to failure was reported by The Norman Transcript on February 12, 2002.

Go here for a summary of my comprehensive 9/11 report:

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php...