Curt Weldon
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 18 Aug
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There were about 15 of them that worked for the CIA, DIA, NSA, FBI, and I would meet with them for breakfast in the Capitol. They would feed me raw data. And they fed me raw data after 9-11 that Osama bin Laden was seen in a town called Ladiz. I had no idea where Ladiz was, so I went up the street and bought a map at the bookstore. You have that map right here that I bought 25 years ago.
And I looked on the map and I found Ladiz, 10 kilometers inside the border of Pakistan and Iran in an area called Balochistan. I then went to a classified briefing for the full committee, closed briefing. Now, I'm the vice chairman of the committee. At the time, I was the acting chairman. The chairman wasn't there.
And in front of 60 members, I said to the CIA, I have information that bin Laden's been sighted in Lodiz. What can you tell me? Mr. Chairman, we've heard similar reports. We can either confirm or deny them. I was outraged. We're sending kids to Afghanistan to look for bin Laden, and they can't deny that he's in a town called Lodiz three months later.
My raw intelligence people tell me that he's being treated at a military hospital in Tehran. I go back to the classified briefing in front of the whole committee, and I ask the question. I get the same response. Mr. Chairman, we've heard similar reports. We can either confirm or deny them. And I said, what the hell's going on here? We're now months into this whole operation.
We're sending kids over to Afghanistan, and you're telling me bin Laden may be in Balochistan. Then I get the most respected Democrat in the House, Jack Murtha. chairman of the Senate of the House Appropriations Defense Committee, former Marine, very well-respected member, and a friend of mine. Murtha sends over Ron Klink. Now, Murtha's dead, but Ron Klink's alive.
And it says to me, to Ron, Ron has information from ANAC. He used to work for the agency about Iran. And Jack says, go see Kurt. He investigates these things. Ron Klink came to my office. And Ron Klink will verify this. He's a man of honor. He's alive. And I said, Ron, how can I help you? He said, Congressman, I have an acquaintance here. I need you to talk to him. Jack said, come, Neil.
I said, okay. He brings this knock in. He said, Congressman Weldon, I want you to help me go to Iran. I said, why do you want to go to Iran? He said, well, that's where I used to work for the agency. And he said, that's where bin Laden is, and there's a $25 million reward.
You help me get to Tehran, I'll leave my credentials there in the hotel, and I'll go down and bring you back dead or alive because there's a $25 million reward. I said, I'm sorry, I'm in the middle of a battle with the agency right now. I can't do that. Now, that's the third incident. Then I get a request from the Department of Interior.
They want to bring in the head of the International Falconry Association. Now, that's not unusual because I'm the Republican on the Migratory Bird Commission. The Migratory Bird Commission oversees all the wildlife refuges in North America. John Dingell was a Democrat. There were two senators and three cabinet members. So I figured he wants to talk about birds. Okay, I'll talk about birds.
This fellow from Maine, Alan Perot, brings in two falcons, million-dollar birds on his shoulders. He's a Sikh, very wealthy family. He said, Mr. Chairman, thank you for greeting with me. I said, okay. I said, I've devoted my life to falcons. I worked with the UN on the international falcon treaties.
And he said, I was in the base camps that trained the children of the royal families on the sport of falconry. I said, well, that's very interesting. I said, how can I help you with these birds? They're beautiful. He said, I want you to help me go to Iran. Now, he knows nothing about what I've been given. I said, why do you want to go to Iran?
He said, my falconers are seeing bin Laden's birds flying in Iran. They'll accept me there. You get me into Iran, I'll tag his birds and take you to exactly where he is. That's the fourth. They take me out of office. I get a call from Michael Sawyer. Michael Sawyer said, Congressman, at my home, do you remember me? I said, yeah, Michael. He said, I worked for the CIA my whole career.
I said, I remember. He said, my job was the director of the bin Laden task force.
I said, well, he said Bin Laden Task Force. I said, what can I help you with? He said, I'm seeing information from the Birdman that I was never shown when I was in charge of the Bin Laden Task Force. I think he's right. We want to do a film. We want you to be a part of it. I said, not after what they did to my family. I'm not getting involved. Thank you, but no. I hang up the phone.
Three months later, I get a call from General McInerney. a decorated American hero. And he calls me at my home and said, Congressman Weldon, I'm working with Michael Scheuer and the Birdman, and we want you involved. I said, General, I'm not going to do it. In the end, I end up with 10 silver bullets, including two royal family members from two separate royal families.
The bin Laden was placed in Iran after 9-11. The U.S. has plausible deniability because they arranged it through other countries. The ultimate... was a person who's worked for our government for 50 years. He's a NOC. He's not from the U.S. I will reveal his information privately, but not publicly, and I'll take a polygraph.
I met with him, and he said, through one of the people he handled when he was active, he said, you're right about many things, Mr. Chairman. I respect you. I said, well, thank you. He said, you're right about Bin Laden. He was in Iran. And he was placed there with U.S. knowledge and information without the knowledge of the U.S. of the Iranian government.
A few years ago, I think it was five years ago, we killed Soleimani. I don't even think Trump knows this. He took credit for killing Soleimani. He deserves credit because Soleimani was a criminal. I text my friend, was that the man? He texts back within one minute, yes. The deal to place bin Laden in Iran was not cut with Ahmadinejad. It was not cut with the head of the Iranian government.
It was cut with the head of the IRG. And if you think back to when the Shah was in power, the Iranian intelligence was largely trained by US intelligence. Those friendships never left. When the radical regimes took over in Iran, they didn't change their intelligence. And those friendships and relationships continued. The real investigation needs to be
What involvement did our intelligence have with Iranian intelligence? And was that involved in placing bin Laden in Iran while we sent thousands of American kids to Afghanistan and 2,500 came back in body bags?
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