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MEMORANDUM TO: CA - Ms. Mary A. Ryan FROM: OIG - Sherman M. United States Department of State \ Inspec July 7, 1993 :' SUBJECT: Issuance of Nonimmigrant Visas to Sheik Abdel Rahman During our work on the subject of visas issued to Sheik Rahman, our team concluded that sufficient evidence was available at the time to deny each of his applications, if the information had been properly entered into the lookout system and/or accessed. This conclusion was generally concurred in bv kev officials at the time the visas were issued. T Shortly before the June 30 hearing we were provided a copy of Mr. Scully's June 22, 1993, memorandum which stated his opinion that a better-than-average chance existed that the Department's Legal Adviser would have found that a refusal of the Sheik's visa in 1990 would have violated immigration law. This issue may likely attract considerable attention during the upcoming open hearing on July 22. I very much need to understand CA's official position on whether the visas (particularly the 1990 one) should have been issued or denied, based on the evidence and information available at the time of the applications. My team will be happy to discuss this matter and share all information we collected from officials (past and present) and post files. I would appreciate your written response by July 16, 1993, so that I can properly examine it in advance of the next hearing. Your staff can contact John Payne at 7-7096 or Linda Topping from my Office of Counsel at 7-5059 if you have questions.
To : CA - Mary A. Ryan Through: CA/VO - John H. From : CA/VO/L - Cornelius D. S>c\\M III u United States Department of Stale Washington, D.C. 20520 rjUU51993 Subj : Issuance of Nonimmigrant Visas to Sheikh Abdel Rahman Ref : OIG memorandum of July 7, 1993 For possible use in responding to the request set forth in the memorandum under reference, I offer the following comments. Before going into a technical analysis, I believe I should explain the state of. affairs as I understand it. After receipt of the memorandum under reference, I discussed this matter with Mr. Brennan and Ms. Brown of OIG and reviewed documents dating between 1982 and November 199.0 assembled by the OIG team during its investigation to date. As Mr. Brennan explained the matter to nue, Being unable to review the actual file, the investigators thereafter interviewed a number of officers who had been stationed in Cairo during the pertinent periods and obtained their recollections of the nature and substance of the information which was contained in the file during its existence, j" " atute 9/1- Closed by Statute J I was unable to review the records of those interviews since, according to Mr. Brennan, they have not as yet been transcribed. As a result, insofar as the Sheikh's on terrorist grounds in 1990 is concerned, definitive judgment. I 9''11 Closed by Statute possible I cannot ineligibility make a
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