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08/22/2009
Death Squad
Blackwater Accused of Creating 'Killing Program'
A memo obtained by SPIEGEL indicates that cooperation between the CIA and private security firm Blackwater was deeper than previously known. SPIEGEL has uncovered further details about a plan to set up squads for targeted killings of suspected al-Qaida leadership in Afghanistan.
On Wednesday, the CIA disclosed that it had hired private security contractor Blackwater to kill senior al-Qaida members. The assassination-program has since drawn strong criticism in Washington. However, SPIEGEL has learned that the level of cooperation between the CIA and the paid mercenaries at Blackwater was even deeper than previously known.
In a memo obtained by SPIEGEL, two former employees describe details of cooperation between the firm and the intelligence agency that then-Vice President Dick Cheney asked the CIA not to disclose to the United States Congress. Even today, members of Congress do not have a complete image of the activities Blackwater undertook on behalf of the government.
The intelligence service commissioned Blackwater and its subsidiaries to transport terror suspects from Guantanamo to interrogations at secret prison camps in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. The paper identifies aircraft movements and unveils how the flights were disguised. The memo says: "The CIA hired Blackwater to conduct extraordinary renditions". And: "Blackwater flew the rendition targets from Fort Perry and Cuba to Kandahar, Afghanistan."
Blackwater also supported the CIA with other controversial activities during the Bush years, the memo states. "The CIA hired Blackwater to conduct targeted killings in Afghanistan," it reads. In July, the new CIA chief appointed by President Barack Obama, Leon Panetta first discussed an "assassination program" with members of Congress in a classified meeting.
The aim of the program was to recruit special commandos who could be trained to conduct assassinations of al-Qaida leadership. Over the years though, CIA officials told members of Senate, the program never really managed to get out of the planning stage.
A "Hitman"
Now, further details have emerged. The memo names five participants who were responsible for building the assassination team, including a member of the Blackwater's paratrooper team and an employee of Blackwater Security Consulting, who, according to the memo was meant to be used as a "hitman." The most important person named in the memo is the former third from the top at the CIA, ex-executive director Alvin Bernard Krongard. "Krongard set up the teams," the paper claims. After he left the CIA, Krongard switched to Blackwater's advisory board.
Confronted with the details of the memo on Wednesday, neither Blackwater nor Krongard would comment on questions submitted by SPIEGEL before its printing deadline on Friday. Asked for comment by SPIEGEL, a CIA spokesperson would neither confirm nor deny that the transports of prisoners had taken place or the existence of a killing program. "We do not comment on our contractual relationships," he said. However, he said the details of the memo included "mistakes," although he chose not to elaborate. Stacy DeLuke, the spokewoman of Blackwater (now called Xe Services), answered in an e-mail: "Due to the sensitive nature of these allegations, we are not inclined to comment at this time."
Next week, a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, is expected to decide whether it will hear a civil suit against Blackwater by the company's victims.
Following the al-Qaida attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, then-President George W. Bush and Cheney deployed private security firms in grand style. Almost overnight, Blackwater transformed itself into an empire funded to the tune of $1 billion by US taxpayers. The company was able to obtain 70 percent of its commissions without going through the standard bidding process. Blackwater also continues to work with the Obama administration. The firm currently handles security for all US diplomats in Afghanistan. However, an increasing number of Democrats on Capitol Hill are calling for the US government to cease working with Blackwater.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,644405,00.html
From historycommons.org:
June 3, 2002: Results of 9/11 Related Insider Trading Inquiries Are Still Unknown
A rare follow-up article about insider trading based on 9/11 foreknowledge confirms that numerous inquiries in the US and around the world are still ongoing. However, “all are treating these inquiries as if they were state secrets.” The author speculates: “The silence from the investigating camps could mean any of several things: Either terrorists are responsible for the puts on the airline stocks; others besides terrorists had foreknowledge; the puts were just lucky bets by credible investors; or, there is nothing whatsoever to support the insider-trading rumors.” [Insight, 6/3/2002] Another article notes that Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, purchased at least some of these options. Deutsche Bank Alex Brown was once headed by “Buzzy” Krongard, who quit that company in March 2001 and became Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). “This fact may not be significant. And then again, it may. After all, there has traditionally been a close link between the CIA, big banks, and the brokerage business.”
January 9, 2005: Newly Departing CIA Executive Director Says It’s Better If Bin Laden Remains Free
A. B. “Buzzy” Krongard, the CIA’s recently departed Executive Director, says in an interview that the world may be better off if bin Laden remains at large. Krongard had been Executive Director, the CIA’s third most senior position, from 1998 until six weeks before this interview. He states, “You can make the argument that we’re better off with him [at large]. Because if something happens to bin Laden, you might find a lot of people vying for his position and demonstrating how macho they are by unleashing a stream of terror.” The London Times notes that, “Several US officials have privately admitted that it may be better to keep bin Laden pinned down on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan rather than make him a martyr or put him on trial.” However, Krongard is the only senior official to say so publicly, and this position completely contradicts the rhetoric of the Bush administration, which has consistently claimed that catching bin Laden remains a top priority. |
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...and down the memory hole it goes.
Say, is Michael Jackson still dead? |
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| NeonLX wrote: | ...and down the memory hole it goes.
Say, is Michael Jackson still dead? |
Not this time
| Quote: | Justice Dept. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, according to a person officially briefed on the matter.
The recommendation by the Office of Professional Responsibility, presented to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in recent weeks, comes as the Justice Department is about to disclose on Monday voluminous details on prisoner abuse that were gathered in 2004 by the C.I.A.’s inspector general but have never been released.
When the C.I.A. first referred its inspector general’s findings to prosecutors, they decided that none of the cases merited prosecution. But Mr. Holder’s associates say that when he took office and saw the allegations, which included the deaths of people in custody and other cases of physical or mental torment, he began to reconsider.
With the release of the details on Monday and the formal advice that at least some cases be reopened, it now seems all but certain that the appointment of a prosecutor or other concrete steps will follow, posing significant new problems for the C.I.A. It is politically awkward, too, for Mr. Holder because President Obama has said that he would rather move forward than get bogged down in the issue at the expense of his own agenda.
The advice from the Office of Professional Responsibility strengthens Mr. Holder’s hand.
The recommendation to review the closed cases, in effect renewing the inquiries, centers mainly on allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Justice Department report is to be made public after classified information is deleted from it.
The cases represent about half of those that were initially investigated and referred to the Justice Department by the C.I.A.’s inspector general, but were later closed. It is not known which cases might be reopened.
Mr. Holder was said to have reacted with disgust earlier this year when he first read accounts of abusive treatment of detainees in a classified version of the inspector general’s report and other materials.
In examples that have just come to light, the C.I.A. report describes how C.I.A. officers carried out mock executions and threatened at least one prisoner with a gun and a power drill. It is a violation of the federal torture statute to threaten a prisoner with imminent death.
Mr. Holder, who questioned the thoroughness of previous inquiries by the Justice Department, is expected to announce within days his decision on whether to appoint a prosecutor to conduct a new investigation; in legal circles, it is believed to be highly likely that he will go forward with a fresh criminal inquiry.
Paul Gimigliano, a C.I.A. spokesman, said Sunday that the Justice Department recommendation to reopen the cases had not been sent to the intelligence agency. He added: “Decisions on whether or not to pursue action in court were made after careful consideration by career prosecutors at the Justice Department. The C.I.A. itself brought these matters — facts and allegations alike — to the department’s attention.”
The report by the Justice Department’s ethics office has been under preparation for more than five years, and its critique of legal work on interrogations provoked bitter complaints from Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey as he was leaving office as the Bush administration’s final attorney general.
The Justice Department’s report, the most important since Mr. Holder took office, was submitted by Mary Patrice Brown, a veteran Washington federal prosecutor picked by Mr. Holder to lead the Office of Professional Responsibility earlier this year after its longtime chief, H. Marshall Jarrett, moved to another job in the Justice Department.
There has never been any public explanation of why the Justice Department decided not to bring charges in nearly two dozen abuse cases known to be referred to a team of federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Va., and in some instances not even the details of the cases have been made public.
Former government lawyers said that while some detainees died and others suffered serious abuses, prosecutors decided they would be unlikely to prevail because of problems with mishandled evidence and, in some cases, the inability to locate witnesses or even those said to be the victims.
A few of the cases are well known, like that of Manadel al-Jamadi, who died in 2003 in C.I.A. custody at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq after he was first captured by a team of Navy Seals. Prosecutors said he probably received his fatal injuries during his capture, but lawyers for the Seals denied it.
Over the years, some Democratic lawmakers sought more details about the cases and why the Justice Department took no action. They received summaries of the number of cases under scrutiny but few facts about the episodes or the department’s decisions not to prosecute.
The cases do not center on allegations of abuse by C.I.A. officers who conducted the forceful interrogations of high-level Qaeda suspects at secret sites, although it is not out of the question that a new investigation would also examine their conduct.
That could mean a look at the case in which C.I.A. officers threatened one prisoner with a handgun and a power drill if he did not cooperate. The detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was suspected as the master plotter behind the 2000 bombing of the Navy destroyer Cole.
All civilian employees of the government, including those at the C.I.A., were required to comply with guidelines for interrogations detailed in a series of legal opinions written by the Justice Department. Those opinions, since abandoned by the Obama administration, were the central focus of the Justice Department’s internal inquiry.
It has been known that the Justice Department ethics report had criticized the authors of the legal opinions and, in some cases, would recommend referrals to local bar associations for discipline.
But the internal inquiry also examined how the opinions were carried out and how referrals of possible violations were made — a process that led ethics investigators to find misconduct serious enough to warrant renewed criminal investigation. |
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Great find, Jeff.
Something to keep in mind is that Krongard was a "friend" of George Tenet, and his position at the CIA was created personally for him:
| Quote: | | ormer Marine A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard was a businessman who once ran a well-regarded investment bank -- albeit the kind of businessman who punched a great white shark, trained occasionally with a police SWAT team and practiced martial arts -- until 1998, when his friend, then director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, brought him into the CIA to fill a specially created position, counsel to the director. In 2001, Krongard was made executive director of the CIA, becoming the third-highest-ranking official in the agency. He left in 2004, shortly after Porter Goss, a former Republican congressman from Florida, replaced Tenet. Salon spoke with him on Wednesday about the NIE, the situation in Pakistan, and the progress -- or lack thereof -- that the Bush administration has made in the war on terror and in Iraq. |
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/07/19/nie/index.html
Here's what Krongard is doing these days:
| Quote: | DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP has named A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard to its global board of directors.
The law firm -- the world's third-largest in number of lawyers -- was formed by two mergers. Piper Rudnick, based in Baltimore and Chicago, merged late last year with California's Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich. The merged firm then joined with London-based powerhouse DLA effective Jan. 1.
DLA Piper's board of directors includes chairman and former United States Senator George J. Mitchell, a partner in the firm; DLA Piper's three co-CEOs; an executive director; and four partners each from the former DLA and the former Piper Rudnick. Krongard will be the board's outside director from the United States, while an outside director from the United Kingdom will be named later.
Krongard was executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2001 until late last year. But he is best-known in Baltimore executive circles as the former chairman and CEO of investment banking house Alex. Brown. |
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2005/03/14/daily34.html
This really just continues the CIA's long involvement with Wall Street:
| Quote: | CIA, THE BANKS AND THE BROKERS
Understanding the interrelationships between CIA and the banking and brokerage world is critical to grasping the already frightening implications of the above revelations. Let's look at the history of CIA, Wall Street and the big banks by looking at some of the key players in CIA's history.
Clark Clifford - The National Security Act of 1947 was written by Clark Clifford, a Democratic Party powerhouse, former Secretary of Defense, and one-time advisor to President Harry Truman. In the 1980s, as Chairman of First American Bancshares, Clifford was instrumental in getting the corrupt CIA drug bank BCCI a license to operate on American shores. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and banker.
John Foster and Allen Dulles - These two brothers "designed" the CIA for Clifford. Both were active in intelligence operations during WW II. Allen Dulles was OSS station chief in Berne, Switzerland, where he met frequently with Nazi leaders and looked after U.S. investments in Germany. John Foster went on to become Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower and Allen went on to serve as CIA Director under Eisenhower and was later fired by JFK. Their professions: partners in the most powerful - to this day - Wall Street law firm of Sullivan, Cromwell.
Bill Casey - Ronald Reagan's CIA Director and OSS veteran who served as chief wrangler during the Iran-Contra years was, under President Richard Nixon, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and stockbroker.
David Doherty - The current Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange for enforcement is the retired General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency.
George Herbert Walker Bush - President from 1989 to January 1993, also served as CIA Director for 13 months from 1976-7. He is now a paid consultant to the Carlyle Group, the 11th largest defense contractor in the nation, which also shares joint investments with the bin Laden family.
A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard - The current Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is the former Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown and former Vice Chairman of Banker's Trust.
John Deutch - This retired CIA Director from the Clinton Administration currently sits on the board at Citigroup, the nation's second largest bank, which has been repeatedly and overtly involved in the documented laundering of drug money. This includes Citigroup's 2001 purchase of a Mexican bank known to launder drug money, Banamex.
Nora Slatkin - This retired CIA Executive Director also sits on Citibank's board.
Maurice "Hank" Greenburg - The CEO of AIG insurance, manager of the third largest capital investment pool in the world, was floated as a possible CIA Director in 1995. FTW exposed Greenberg's and AIG's long connection to CIA drug trafficking and covert operations in a two-part series that was interrupted just prior to the attacks of September 11. AIG's stock has bounced back remarkably well since the attacks. To read that story, please go to http://www.fromthewilderness.com/
free/ciadrugs/part_2.html. |
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_09_01_krongard.html
I wrote about this some time ago here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/7/03944/94402
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I hope Scahill gets ahold of this, if he already hasn't.
http://rebelreports.com/ |
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If this isn't an illustration that solving the mystery of 9/11 would have been better served by subjecting it to a huge police-type investigation such as by a special counsel like that done by Lawrence Walsh in the Iran/contra scandal, rather than burning up all the oxygen by arguing endlessly about what caused the towers to fall, this topic is it. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever leave it up to politicians to investigate anything.
Old thread on put options:
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=8494&highlight=options |
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Anyone else read about Blackwater head Cofer Black and his intimate involvement in inserting informants into bin Laden's inner circle, tracking the hijackers every move, setting up fake al Qaeda cells in Afghanistan, etc?
Cofer Black and 9/11-al Qaeda go together like Michael Phelps and swimming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofer_Black#Al-Qaeda_strategy.2C_1999-2001
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6363469
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| seemslikeadream wrote: | | NeonLX wrote: | ...and down the memory hole it goes.
Say, is Michael Jackson still dead? |
Not this time
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Coroner Rules Jackson's Death Homicide |
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Thanks for the second link
Definitely a person of interest, for various reasons...
"In the Osama bin Laden story, a former CIA official with the unlikely name “J. Cofer Black” is the character who seems to pop up in the most interesting places.
Indeed, Mr. Black is the one person at CIA who admits to having dealt with bin Laden, face-to-face, after the Soviets departed Afghanistan in the early 1990s.
During the last few years of his CIA career, Cofer Black had an extraordinarily focused, unusual assignment. Until he retired from CIA in late 2002, Cofer Black was one of the few officers within the clandestine service with a real subject matter expertise. Black’s specialty was Usama bin Laden, “UBL”, as he’s known in U.S. intelligence circles."
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=10923
"Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA, announced Tuesday the formation of a new CIA-type private company to provide intelligence services to commercial clients.
The executive roster for the new venture, Total Intelligence Solutions, is loaded with veterans of U.S. intelligence agencies, including two other Blackwater officials.
A spokeswoman for Total Intelligence said there is no corporate affiliation with Blackwater, the Moyock, N.C.-based private military company, but the new firm clearly has a Blackwater stamp. " |
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Jeff
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| cptmarginal wrote: |
Timing:
Coroner Rules Jackson's Death Homicide |
On the other hand, there's always something. And somehow, there's never the time nor space to give stories like this the attention they merit. |
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| cptmarginal wrote: |
Thanks for the second link
Definitely a person of interest, for various reasons...
"In the Osama bin Laden story, a former CIA official with the unlikely name “J. Cofer Black” is the character who seems to pop up in the most interesting places.
Indeed, Mr. Black is the one person at CIA who admits to having dealt with bin Laden, face-to-face, after the Soviets departed Afghanistan in the early 1990s.
During the last few years of his CIA career, Cofer Black had an extraordinarily focused, unusual assignment. Until he retired from CIA in late 2002, Cofer Black was one of the few officers within the clandestine service with a real subject matter expertise. Black’s specialty was Usama bin Laden, “UBL”, as he’s known in U.S. intelligence circles."... |
More history on Cofer, and whatever became of Gary Schroen?
Osama's head on ice: CIA and Bush administration fire up mighty Wurlitzer
May 13, 2005—Corporate media—part of the CIA's "mighty Wurlitzer" of propaganda—is buzzing with the recent televised performances of CIA agent Gary Schroen, who alleges that shortly after 9/11, his CIA superior, J. Cofer Black, ordered fellow CIA agents to behead Osama bin Laden, and deliver his head in a box of dry ice to George W. Bush.
Black allegedly also ordered the delivery of the heads of other al-Qaeda lieutenants to Bush, on "pikes." (Also see the CNN and BBC versions.)
The lurid Schroen account is of little actual significance, except as loud Washington infotainment chatter, and well-timed disinformation. The Schroen/Black sound bites add new color to the bogus cover stories and mythical legends about 9/11 and "Osama"—the myth cemented in place by the likes of the Kean Commission, and endless media "war on terrorism" propaganda:
1. Schroen and Black are longtime CIA operatives. This fact alone is cause for deep skepticism and suspicion, almost immediately discrediting anything they say. The CIA's job is to hide truth, or promote a version of events that the White House and Wall Street want promoted.
2. Anything broadcasted by the CIA or the Bush administration over corporate media is what the CIA and the Bush administration want the public to swallow.
3. There is a strong likelihood that this "Osama head on ice" is more planted myth, in the same vein as Bush's alleged cowboy 9/11 rants about "tin horn terrorists," "dead or alive," etc., and in the same file cabinet with the continuing series of Osama confessional videotapes, and other sick products of post-9/11.
4. There is an equally strong likelihood that the Rove-Bush disinformation factory is in overdrive, pushing to inflate Bush's macho image, distract from deepening losses in Iraq and falling Bush popularity numbers. Rove-Bush must also earnestly stoke the masses for the coming war on Iran. The depiction of a crazy-macho "terrorist decapitator" Bush assists this effort, ridiculous as it is...
7. Schroen is promoting his own book about the "hunt" for Osama. Sensationalism is part of his PR.
8. J.Cofer Black has been at the forefront of the "war on terrorism" since before 9/11, and a leading exponent of the Bush administration's cover-up:
J.Cofer Black's Congressional testimony on terrorism and 9/11
Black's views on "terrorism" mirrors the deceptive line pushed by the Kean Commission, James Pavitt, former CIA operative Robert Baer, and many others. The falsehoods include the idea that 1) Islamic terrorism is something unconnected to (or not beholden to) CIA, 2) the CIA needs more human assets planted in the Middle East, 3) the CIA needs more funding and increased police powers, and 4) the Bush administration did not have specific information to prevent 9/11.
9. The deep political system is not a monolithic apparatus. In fact, it is a mess of conflicting and competing fiefdoms and factions, even as it operates under a larger criminal umbrella working towards similar objectives (formulated by the world's elites).
Which faction within the CIA does Schroen represent? Where do Schroen/Black fit, in terms of the new Porter Goss/Negroponte regime?
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Shortly after the founding of the CIA, OSS/CIA legend Frank Wisner gleefully coined the CIA's powerful propaganda machine "the Mighty Wurlitzer." Today, the "Wurlitzer" is a global orchestra. It is the so-called mainstream media, and vice versa—and its disinformation is played around the clock, echoing in every corner of the world. It is the noise of an irrevocably criminal empire, rotten to its core.
Those who willingly consume the CIA's brain-numbing indoctrinations, who accept any aspect of the Bush administration's "war on terrorism" myth, have delivered their own heads, their minds, to George W. Bush—on dry ice and on pikes.
http://www.onlinejournal.org/Media/051305Chin/051305chin.html
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| Jeff wrote: | | cptmarginal wrote: |
Timing:
Coroner Rules Jackson's Death Homicide |
On the other hand, there's always something. And somehow, there's never the time nor space to give stories like this the attention they merit. |
Yeah, definitely. It was pretty funny that seemslikeadream would say that right before this ruling (which should kickstart a circus of TV bullshit) 
These latest incidents they've revealed are obvious attempts to portray the nature of the new USA torture gulag system as desperately necessary. Threatened with a gun? Said he'd kill his family? Rifle butts? Pretty harsh stuff, but it's an easier picture than a slimy black hell-hole where you're chained to the ground (which resembles a meat factory's) then viciously & sadistically violated with barely-suppressed glee. Oops! Time for a surprise hooded flight to be experimented on elsewhere. Maybe 3 days of standing, with the Backstreet Boys on the boombox, then off to Bright Light?
Glenn Greenwald has done a good job of showing why this investigation is so fundamentally fucked:
| Quote: | | More important, the scope of the "review" is limited at the outset to those who failed to "act in good faith and within the scope of legal guidance" -- meaning only those interrogators and other officials who exceeded the torture limits which John Yoo and Jay Bybee approved. Those who, with good faith, tortured within the limits of the OLC memos will "be protected from legal jeopardy" |
Eric Holder announces investigation based on Abu Ghraib model
What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report
Notice that the "abuses" which are detailed below the scanned material in the second link are much worse than the new ones which have been selectively unredacted. |
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