(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - In a report posted on its website on Wednesday, Al Jazeera said it had gained access to secret documents in the Tripoli headquarter of Libya's intelligence agency, showing direct communications between the Libyan regime and influential figures in the US.
The papers appeared to be the minutes of a meeting between former Assistant Secretary of State David Welch, the man who brokered the deal to restore diplomatic relations between the United States and Libya in 2008, and two senior Libyan officials.
The files reportedly showed Welch met with two Libyan officials, Abubakr al-Zleitny and Mohammed Ahmed Ismail on August 2, 2011, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Cairo, just a few blocks from the US embassy, where Welch advised Gaddafi's team on how to win the propaganda war through a number of "confidence-building measures."
Welch also advised Gaddafi on how to overcome Libya's movement with the potential assistance of foreign intelligence agencies, including Israeli spy agencies, and through linking the leaders of the popular protests to al-Qaeda terrorists.
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