Bin Laden Issue Station - After 9/11

After 9/11

Shortly after 9/11, Michael Scheuer came back to the Station as special adviser. He stayed until 2004.

After the September 11 attacks, staff numbers at the Station were expanded into the hundreds. Scheuer claimed the expansion was a "shell game" played with temporary (and inexperienced) staff, and that the core personnel "remained at under 30, the size it was when Scheuer left office in 1999". (As we have seen, professional staff numbers grew to 40 to 50 by the eve of 9/11.)

After 9/11, "Hendrik V.", and later "Marty M.", were chiefs of "Alec Station's Bin Ladin Unit" (says George Tenet).

The Bin Laden Station was disbanded in late 2005.

In 2011, Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy (who had previously made the documentary film "9/11: Press for Truth"), published the documentary "Who is Rich Blee". They focused on the CIA preventing information from reaching the FBI before 9/11, and the filmmakers deduced the identities of several CIA agents inside the Bin Laden Issue Station using open source research they found in public publications. Before they released their documentary, the CIA threatened them under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Their documentary was posted with the names redacted. But they claim their webmaster accidentally posted some emails that contained the identities, which were later spread to the wider internet.