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Article: WESTERN UNION GAVE CIA ACCESS TO CUSTOMER RECORDS, BOOK CHARGES.(United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation)(First Data Corp.)(Western Union Corp.)(Brief article)
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- June 23, 2006
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First Data Corp. and its Western Union division gave the FBI and the CIA access to customer records after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a new book by a Pultizer Prize winning reporter. Ron Suskind's "The One Percent Doctrine" charges that Western Union allowed the agencies in 2003 to view financial transactions and wire transfers as they occurred. Suskind writes that First Data offered its assistance to the FBI less than two days after the 9/11 attacks, according to news reports. First Data and the FBI then worked from a joint office near First Data's processing center in Omaha, Neb. Suskind recounts a conversation between an unnamed Western Union executive and George ...
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