Enemies Within (39 page)

© LANDON NORDEMAN

M
ATT
A
PUZZO
and A
DAM
G
OLDMAN
are investigative reporters for the Associated Press in Washington, D.C. They shared in the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series on the New York Police Department’s clandestine spying program targeting American Muslims. Together Apuzzo and Goldman have uncovered the location of an overseas CIA prison, revealed widespread cheating on FBI exams, and showed how the CIA’s haphazard disciplinary system resulted in promotions for officers who kidnapped and killed the wrong people. They have shared the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, a George Polk Award, the Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award, and the Edgar A. Poe Award from the White House Correspondents’ Association. Apuzzo has covered organized crime, corruption, and law enforcement in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Washington. Goldman has covered crime and government for newspapers in Virginia and Alabama. He reported from Las Vegas and New York for the AP.

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NOTES

Two: A Spy in New York

1
. Leonard Levitt,
NYPD Confidential: Power and Corruption in the Country’s Greatest Police Force
(New York: Thomas Dunne Books), pp. 41–42.

2
. Kelly’s Vietnam service record includes participation in Operations Harvest Moon, Blue Marlin, Dagger Thrust, and others.

3
. Jim Rutenberg, “Torture Seeps into Discussion by News Media,”
New York Times
, November 5, 2001,
www.nytimes.com/2001/11/05/business/media/05TORT.html?pagewanted=all
.

4
. 
The September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks
(Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, April 2003),
www.justice.gov/oig/special/0306/full.pdf
.

5
. The phone call is described in Christopher Dickey,
Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterrorism Force—The NYPD
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 36.

6
. Interview with a former colleague who witnessed the event.

7
. Interview with a former colleague.

8
. Interviews with former CIA officials who know and worked with Cohen.

9
. Interview with Melvin Goodman.

10
. Interview with John Deutch.

11
. The “Jordans” anecdote and the sentiment in the Near East Division were described in an interview with longtime officer Robert Baer and confirmed by other former Directorate of Operations officers.

12
. Gordon Lederman,
Memorandum for the Record (MFR) of the Interview of David Cohen of the Central Intelligence Agency conducted by Team 2
(Washington, DC: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, June 21, 2004),
http://media.nara.gov/9-11/MFR/t-0148-911MFR-00164.pdf
.

13
. Ibid.

14
. 
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004), pp. 111–12.

15
. Email to the authors from Boston University spokesman Colin Riley: “[Cohen] received a Master’s Degree in Government on 5/29/1966.”

16
. The best insider’s account of the NYPD Intelligence Division of that era is Anthony J. Bouza,
Police Intelligence, The Operations of an Investigative Unit
(New York: AMS Press, 1976). The mission creep is described on pages 163–64.

17
. Defendants’ Answers to Plaintiffs’ Interrogatories, Handschu v. Special Services Division, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 71-CV-2203, document filed on December 22, 1977.

18
. Affidavit of Rosemary Carroll, Handschu v. Special Services Division, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 71-CV-2203, March 18, 1981.

19
. Details of the FBI and CIA spying operations are taken from six books that make up the
Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities,
particularly book 3,
Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976), available at
www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs94th/94755_III.pdf
.

20
. 
Final Report
, bk. 3, p. 695.

Three: Heading East

1
. Lord Carlisle of Berriew, QC,
Operation Pathway: Report Following Review
(London: Institute of Race Relations, October 2009),
www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/Carliles_report_Pathway.pdf
. This document links email to “Al Qaeda’s operations outside Pakistan.” Al-Somali was al-Qaeda’s external operations chief at the time. The Justice Department has publicly linked the email address to al-Somali through a courier.

2
. McHale testimony from
Hearing on 9/11 Health Effects: The Screening and Monitoring of First Responders, Before the Subcommittee on Government
Management, Organization, and Procurement of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, September 10, 2007
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009), available at
www.napo.org/washington-report/McHaleTestimony.pdf
.

Four: Demographics

1
. Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, “Authority for NYPD-CIA Collaboration Questioned,” Associated Press, January 20, 2012,
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP99d50ace043148fbbe3d296b37c3c5aa.html
.

2
. The content of these discussions and the immediate post-9/11 concerns were described in interviews with former senior NYPD officials directly involved in transforming the department at that time.

3
. Terry McDermott, “A Perfect Soldier,”
Los Angeles Times
, January 27, 2002,
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jan/27/news/mn-25005
.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Stevenson Swanson, “9/11 Haunts Hijacker’s Sponsors,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 7, 2003,
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-03-07/news/0303070298_1_mohamed-atta-hijacker-world-trade-center
.

6
. John Cloud, “Atta’s Odyssey,”
Time
, September 30, 2001,
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,176917,00.html
.

7
. Tim Golden, Michael Moss, and Jim Yardley, “Unpolished Secret Agents Were Able to Hide in Plain Sight,”
New York Times
, September 23, 2001,
www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/national/23PLOT.html
.

8
. John Hooper, “The Shy, Caring, Deadly Fanatic,”
Observer
(UK), September 23, 2001,
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/sep/23/september11.education
.

9
. United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui, criminal no. 01-455-A, prosecution trial exhibits, government exhibit ST00001, stipulation (regarding flights hijacked on September 11, 2001; September 11, 2001, deaths; al-Qaeda; chronology of hijacker’s activities; Zacarias Moussaoui; and the Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening System [CAPPS]), filed March 1, 2006. Available at
www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/ST00001A.pdf
.

10
. Cohen’s interest in Reid’s time in Paris was described in an interview with a former senior federal intelligence official who discussed Reid’s case with Cohen.

11
. Cohen’s description of raking coals was described in interviews with former NYPD officials involved in the genesis of the program.

12
. Sam Roberts, “Police Demographics Unit Casts Shadows from Past,”
City Room
(blog),
New York Times
, January 3, 2012,
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/police-demographics-unit-casts-shadows-from-past
.

13
. The Israeli inspiration was described in two interviews: one with a former NYPD official and a second with a former senior US intelligence official who spoke to Sanchez about the program.