Mr. Soufan gave him a towel to cover himself and then revealed that he had earlier interrogated yet another of his brothers in Yemen, for whom he had arranged a phone call with their mother. allowed Mr. Soufan to republish his book without the black bars that had concealed those kinds of details after a journalist and documentary filmmaker sued the agency. Shown a copy of the restored memoir, Daniel Jones, who led the research of millions of pages of C.I.A. “Ali has been, by far, the most consistently accurate person in his writings about this and his discussions about it,” Mr. Jones said. Mr. Soufan helped keep him alive and then got him talking in a hospital room, for what the agent described as a conversation that lasted about 10 days.

Source: New York Times August 29, 2020 14:32 UTC