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Evenl: Phon e call with 9/11 airline passengerType of Event: BriefingDate: August 2003Special Access Issues: NonePrepared by: John Raid tTeam Number: 7Location: Phone callParticipants - NonCommission:^^^^ Japassenger aboard UALFlight915 from Paris to Washington, D.C.Participants -- Com mission: John Raidt

jn a United Airlines Flight 915 from Paris Charles dc GauUp airport to',Washington Dulles leavlrfg-at-approximately 1:30 p.tn. (Paris t ime) on 9/11/2001. : " * * - *" '

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Forty-l ive minutes before the aircraft was due to land In-Washington, the pilot announced ',lhal the plane was being diverted to Halifax. H e cxglamgdj.ortie passengers that U.S.\ewas closed becadditional security procedures on the aircraft accompanying thc_aruioiincc-inenT:"--;::/"^- - - - - - - - - " ,--''"''-''/'' Personal

^^^^^JJJJjjJ^lie!!rapp~roxirnate1y 10 t imes a year to Europe from the United States for Pr ivacybusiness purposes. She indicated that she had never seen security a'f (he ajrpon as/'rigorous as it was on the morning of 9/11 (prior to the attack's in the United Slates), Sh esaid (hat the authorities double and triple checked-passports. Thc-atmosphere Was tenseand th e secu rity people appeared to be on $.Wgh level of alert ^ ÛJj Haid, "Thoyobviously knew som ething was going on.'' (This took place prior to the attacks in theUnited Stales later that day.),--'''

m e that as th e plane wax being boarded a man was taken away fromthe terminal area by guards. She heard the individual screaming, but could nol see whatwas going on. Sheâôjdby, eye witnesses that a man was being taken away by"authorities."C^^^^^Jmdicated thai she and other passengers believed that theindividual had been taken from the plane Ihey were boarding, because it was the only

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plane readying for take-off in the concourse. She cannot confirm, however, Ihat th eindividual was definitely on the aircraft.said^that-hcr-flight Jaade.d.in Halifax at around three in the afternoon. The

passengers remained on board until 2 a.m. the following da y"at "whtchf time-they-were..-...taken by bus to a military base where they spent th e night before re t _u tnmtc r ' ' ' " " " 9/11Washington. ,.- Personal....,- """ Privacy^ ^ ^HJsaid'shewasnot interviewed nor did she detect any screening of herself orother passengers after th e flights were grounded in Halifax ,

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Even t: Phone call with Janet Ri f f e $tsj ^Type of Event: BriefingDate: September 1 1 , 2003Special Access Issues: No nePrepared by: John RaidtTeam Number : 7Location: Con ference Phone callParticipants - Non Commission: Janet Rif fe , FAAPrincipal Security Inspector assignedto American Airlines on 9/1 1 . Brandon Strauss of TSA monitored th e call.Participants -- Commission: John Raidt and Lisa Sullivan

Janet Riffei(was the FAA's Principal Security Inspector" assigned to (J58fe as of 9/1 1 . Shehad been in that position for about oas-year or year .and- one-half. She had been a securityinspector for nearly five years. O.Ri f fe is currently employed by the TSA as an Assistant Federal Security Director forOperations at Greensboro, North Carolina.Ri f f e is the PSI mentioned in ari1 internal memorandu m afrthc F^A? that contained thefollowing text:

"The Amer ican Air l ines FAA Pr incipal Secur i ty Inspector (PSI) was notified by \eClark of American Airl ines Corporate Heada t tendant contacted A mer ican A ir l ine Operat ions Center and in fo rmed that a passengerlocated in seat 10B shot and killed a passenger in seat 9B at 9:20 a.m. Th e passengerkilled w a s D a n Lewin , shot b y passenger Satam Al S uq a mi . O n e bul le t w as reported \ohave been

-ead the passage to Ri f f e and asked her if the passage accurately depictedClark had told Ri f f e about a shooting. Rif fe said the memo was a correctwhat she 'd been tol

Ri f fe said she was in the EAA H Q C ommand Center taking notes. The notes from the callwith Clark were given toTran Lozito (#2 in the FAA command center). Lozito would ~-give them to Lee Longmire (#1 in the comm and center). The information was put into alog. The executive summary was produced from the log.

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Ri f f e 's view w as that the execut ive summary w as be ing prepared for the Administrator.9 . >Ri f f e said that the next day someone in the*adminktrator's office said that her notationwas the only gun referenceXand to please clarify $3?accuracy--Lee Longmire asked Siuannc to contact Am erican to s

talked to C hris B idwel loAAL security- ( W h o m she would norm ally deal with). He saidthe report was erroneous^Ri f f e said she verbally passed on the update to Lee Longmire.

r~Rif fe said that in her view Suzanne Clark will say that she never told R i f f e anything\_about a shooting, though Ri f f e is sure she did.Ri f f e didn ' t know anything about follow-on drafts of the executive summary that mayhave deleted the passage.

\e indicated that the GAO did a comprehensive investigation m te the gun issue.f t ( < t+Ri f f e added that there was s=mHeh going on in the command center and in the aviationsystenyad that there was a lot of erroneous information floating around.

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORDEvent: Phone call with Janet Rif fe , FAA's Principal Security Inspector assigned toAm erican Airlines on 9/11Type of Event: Conference Call / BriefingDate: September 11 ,2003Special Access Issues: Non ePrepared by: J o h n R a i d tTeam Number: 7Location: Conference CallParticipants Non Commission: Janet Rif fe , FAA Principal Security Inspector assignedto Am erican Airlines on 9/11, and Brandon Strauss, Counsel at TSA (monitoring).Participants ~ Com mission: John R aidt and Lisa SullivanThe purpose of the conference call was to trace the origin of the report that a gun was onboard Am erican Airlines fl ight 11. Specifically, to determine if Rif fe had been told by anemploye e at Am erican Airlines Corporate Headquarters that a gun was on boardAmerican Airlines fl ight 11 ; as reported in an FAA internal mem orandum .Janet Riffe was the FA A 's P rincipal Security Inspector (PSI) assigned to A mericanAirlines on 9/11/01. She had been in that position for about a year to a year and a half.Riffe is currently employed by the TSA as an Assistant Federal Security Director forOperations at Greensboro, North Carolina.Riffe is the PSI mentioned in an FAA internal mem orandum that contained the followingtext:

"The American Air l in e s FAA Principal Security Inspector (PSI) was notified bySuzanne Clark of American Airl ines Corporate Headquarter that an on-board fl ightattendant contacted Am erica n Air l ine Ope rations Center and in formed that a passengerlocated in seat 10B shot an d killed a passenger in seat 9B at 9:20 a.m. The passengerkilled was Dan Lewin, shot by passenger Satam Al Suqami . O ne bul let w as reportedto have been fired."

John R aidt read the passage to Riffe and asked her if the passage accurately depictedwhat Suzanne Clark had told Ri f fe about a shooting. Riffe said the mem o was a correctdepiction of what she'd been told.Riffe said she was in the FAA HQ Com mand Center taking notes on her calls as moreinformation came in. She said sh e that Suzanne was not her normal point of contact at



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Corporate Headqu arters. Following the initial call from her in which she described theshooting; Ri f fe did not speak to her again. The notes from the call with Clark were givento her man ager that day, Fran Lozito (#2 in the FAA co m m and center). Lozito gave themto Lee Longm ire (# 1 in the com m and center). The inform ation was put into a log. Theexecutive summ ary was produced from the log. Rif fe ' s view was that the executivesummary was being prepared for the Administrator.According to Ri f fe , th e next day someone in the Adm inist rator 's office said that her notewas the only gun referen ce found and to please clarify for accuracy.Lee Longm ire asked Ri f fe to contact A m erican Airlines to confirm her report of the gun.She talked to her normal point-of-contact, Chris Bidwell, th e manager of corporatesecurity at Am erican Airlines. Riffe said Bidwell told her the report was erroneous. Riffeverbally passed th e update to Lee Longmire.

Ri f fe didn't know anything about follow-on drafts of the executive summary that mayhave deleted the passage.Riffe indicated that the GA O did a com prehe nsive investigation into the gun issue.Ri f fe expressed her view that Suzanne Clark, if asked, would deny telling Ri f fe anythingabout a shooting; although Ri f fe is sure she did.Riffe added that there was a lot going on in the com m and center and in the aviationsystem . There was a lot of erroneous inform ation floating around.



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