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Date : Aug 16 '95, 00:11                                                       
From : Richard Donovan                                         1:278/304
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Subj : FBI 1                                                                 
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From the mailbag:

                   FBI agent says reports changed 
                        for Trade Center trial
    
                            By Jeanne King

    NEW YORK, Aug 14 [Reuter] - An FBI explosives expert testifying in the
bombing plot trial of Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine others
said on Monday that he was told to change his reports in favour of the
prosecution.
    FBI agent Frederic Whitehurst said he disagreed with the final report
prepared by the FBI that was to have been used by the government at the trial
of four men accused in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre.
    ``There was a great deal of pressure put upon me to bias my
interpretation,'' Whitehurst said in Federal Court in Manhattan. He said his
superiors told him ``not to provide alternative theories that could be used by
the defence. I was told not to give the defence anything that could be used.''
    Whitehurst told the court that initial reports about the presence of urea
nitrate were false. He said it so upset him that false testimony would be
offered that he went to the bathroom, urinated into a beaker and went to
extremes to demonstrate that false information was being offered.
    Whitehurst said he formulated urea nitrate from his own urine and placed
that sample with others taken from the bomb scene. He said the FBI technician
failed to notice the difference between the samples.
  Whitehurst said he was so upset at the ``strong pressure'' being put on him
by FBI members that he wrote two memos to the Inspector General about the
matter.
    Whitehurst, who holds a doctorate in chemistry from Duke University, was
called as a defence witness by lawyers for Fares Khalafalla and Mohammad Saleh,
two men who have been on trial since January with the Egyptian cleric.
    Abdel-Rahman and nine other men are charged with planning the World Trade
Centre blast and plotting to bomb the United Nations and bridges and tunnels
leading into New York. They are also accused of planning the 1990 murder of
Jewish militant Rabbi Meir Kahane and conspiring to kill Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak when he was visiting the United States.
    ``I was criticised openly and told I could hurt the prosecution case ...
that the prosecution was going to circumvent my testimony by having another
expert testify,'' said Whitehurst, who described himself as the ``dean'' of the
FBI explosives school in Virginia.
    Four men were convicted in 1994 for the explosion at the trade centre that
killed six people and injured more than 1,000 others. The four were sentenced
to 240 years in prison.
    After the trade centre trial Whitehurst was transferred to the paint chip
analysis division of the FBI as a trainee.

 
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