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Notes on Julie Sirrs

Julie Sirrs is a terrorism expert formerly with the Defense Intelligence Agency. Rumor has it that she is considered by some to have "gone native". Going native is considered a dangerous thing by the US Intelligence Community. What it means is that you know enough to formulate ideas that contradict US foreign Policy. Apparently Sirrs realized that bin Laden and Taliban were a major threat and that State Department was backing the wrong side. No one likes to admit it but State and the Intelligence Community backed Taliban until the planes hit on 9/11.
Julie Sirrs, an Afghanistan specialist at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency during the Clinton administration. Long Before Sept. 11, Bin Laden Aircraft Flew Under the Radar
The Taliban's International Ambitions Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2001
Julie Sirrs, Former Defense Intelligence Agency Analyst
2001: At some point during the year, Julie Sirrs, a Defense Intelligence Agency agent, travels twice to Afghanistan. She claims DIA officials knew in advance about both trips. Sirrs sees a terrorist training center there, and meets with Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Massoud, who is later assassinated by the Taliban on September 9. On her second trip she returns with what she later claims is a treasure trove of information, including evidence that bin Laden is planning to assassinate Massoud. However, upon returning, a security officer meets her flight and confiscates her material. The DIA and the FBI investigate her. She says no higher-ups want to hear what she had learned in Afghanistan. Ultimately, Sirrs' security clearance is pulled and she resigned. She eventually quits the DIA in frustration. [ABC News, 2/18/02]
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