Curt Weldon
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 18 Aug
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So, Tucker, with Al Santoli, whom you know, and two other members of Congress, I privately, without the knowledge of our government or the CIA, I went to Paris. Wir haben den König Zahir Shah getroffen, der König von Afghanistan, der mit seiner Familie in Paris lebt. Wir haben ihn getroffen, um ihn zurück in Kabul zu konvenieren, um eine Loya Jorga der ganzen Triebe zu konvenieren.
To convince them to accept the American troops before they went in, so it wouldn't be like they did with Russia. King Zahir Shah agreed to that. I'll give you the photographs, Tucker. And I had two members of Congress and Al Santoli with me, decorated Vietnam veteran. Zahir Shah went back. I did all I could to protect our American troops, not the CIA, our troops.
Then I find out, my intel team, those 20 people that were feeding me raw data, Give me data within months after 9-11. That bin Laden's been sighted in a town called Ladiz. I have no idea where Ladiz is. So I go up Pennsylvania Avenue to a bookstore and buy a map. I just gave you the map here today, Tucker. You can show it. And I found Ladiz. It's not in Afghanistan. It's not in Pakistan.
It's in Iran. In an area called Balochistan. So I go to the next classified briefing for the full committee. Now I'm the Vice Chairman of the full committee. There are 60 members. I'm the acting chairman at this time. So I said to the CIA, I have information of bin Ladens in Ladiz. This is their response to me. Mr. Chairman, we've heard similar reports. We can either confirm or deny them.
I was in shock. I was in shock. We're sending kids to die in Afghanistan and we can't confirm or deny whether or not bin Ladens in Ladiz... Three months go by. I'm still supporting the president. My intel team comes back to me and say, Kurt, he's being treated at a military hospital outside of Tehran. I go back to the classified briefing and I ask the question in front of the full committee.
And the answer from the CIA is, Mr. Chairman, we've heard similar reports. We can either confirm or deny that Bin Laden is being treated at a military hospital outside of Tehran while we're sending kids to die in Afghanistan. I said, this is outrageous. And then, Tucker, I get a call from Jack Murtha, the most respected Democrat in the House, former Marine, who I work with closely.
And he says to me, I want you to meet with Ron Klink, Democrat from Pittsburgh. And Ron Klink's still alive. He'll verify this, Tucker. Jack's dead, but Ron's alive. He said, Jack has a person who used to work for the agency that has information about Iran. And you investigate this kind of stuff, Kurt. Will you meet with him? I said, sure.
Ron Klink kommt zu meinem Büro und bringt einen sehr langen Mann, der ein ehemaliger Mensch ist aus der schwedischen Region, aber er ist ein US-Besitzer. Und ich sagte, wie kann ich dir helfen? Sie wissen, Congressman Murphy hat mich geholfen, Ron Klink will mir helfen. Er sagte, Congressman, ich möchte, dass du mir helfen kannst, in den Iran zu kommen.
Ich sagte, warum willst du in den Iran gehen? Er sagte, das ist, wo bin Laden ist. Ich sagte, warum würdest du mir sagen, dass bin Laden in dem Iran ist? He said, I was a knock for the agency. Do you know what a knock is?
That's right. He said, I was a knock for the agency and I worked that area. And my friends are seeing Bin Laden in Iran. If you help me get to Tehran, I'll leave my identity there. I'll get a piece of him dead or alive and I'll bring it back. At the time, there was a $25 million reward for Bin Laden. I said, I can't help you right now because I'm in a battle over this follow-up to 9-11.
Then I get another call, Tucker. von dem Innenministerium, völlig separat. Sie wollen ihren Top-Birdmann, ihren Bird-Expert, einbringen. Ich dachte nicht, dass das ungewöhnlich war, weil ich der Republikaner auf der Migratoren-Bird-Kommission war. The Migratory Bird Commission. I didn't know there was a migratory bird. It oversees all the flyways for all the refuges up and down the coast.
I was a Republican.
John Dingle was a Democrat.
Two senators and three cabinet members. So I figured they want to talk about birds. I'm on the Bird Commission. I'll meet with them. So this Interior Department bird expert brings in a US citizen from Maine, who's a Sikh, but he's a US citizen, very wealthy family. And he's got two falcons on his shoulders, million dollar birds with the blinders on, beautiful. Into my office.
I said, boy, they're gorgeous. How can I help you? He said, well, Congressman, I've devoted my life to Falcons. He said, I helped write the UN protection treaties on falconry. He said, I trained all the children of the royal families in the sport of falconry. Yes. Because that's their sport. He said, they all know me. They all trust me.
Yes. He said, so, and I want to help the country. And there's a reward for Bin Laden. I said, yeah, I know that. He said, I want you to help me go to Iran. I said, why do you want to go to Iran? Now he knows nothing about anything else I'm doing. My falconers are seeing Bin Ladens birds flying in Iran. You help me go to Iran, they'll accept me there because they know me.
I'll tag his birds and I'll take the US to exactly where he is. That's four, four full source identities that Bin Laden was exactly where my intel people said he was. Over the course of time, Tucker, I developed 10 silver bullets. They wanted to do a movie about me after they took me out, and I'll get to when they took me out. I got a call from Michael Scheuer. Michael was career CIA.
After I was taken out of office, he called my home. He said, Congressman, do you remember me? I said, vaguely, Michael. He said, well, I was the chairman of the Bin Laden Task Force in the CIA. And these people that have met with you have shown me documents I never saw when I was working in the agency. And I was the Bin Laden Task Force Director. He said, we want you to work with us.
We want you to be involved in a movie we're doing. I said, Michael, after what they did to my family, I can't do it right now. I hung up the phone. I get a call from General McInerney. About three months later, Tom McInerney. He said, Congressman, do you remember me? I said, yes, General, I remember you. He said, I'd like you to work with us, Congressman.
I'm working with Michael Sawyer and the Falconer. I said, I'm not getting involved. After what they did to my family. They all had the same story, Tucker. So what was happening in 2006?
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