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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

Event: Interview of FBI Special Agent Damian Platosh (DP)

Type of event: Interview

Dates: October 10, 2003

Special Access Issues: None

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Prepared by: Rajesh De

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Location: FBI, Washington Field Office !

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Participants - Non-Commission: Pa~/'O'a'rieh~\a.6'~""$1~ton

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Participants - Commission: HyonKim, jRaj

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DP has been with the FBI for 6.5/:Yearsand was ~~:~~gn¢d WfO from the beginning of
his tenure with the Bureau. He initially worked p~ fraudcases and was only assigned
to counter-terrorism on 1 July 7002. / ": :',\\, ' " ,

DP only became familiar withl) Ian~'1 "\, '....

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opened investigations on them In Apn(: 20U3. UP emphasized repeatedly that his
investigations of these individuals are prospective o~iy and 'having nothing to do with
. 9/11. DP also insisted that any knowledge he had of any possiblelinksbetween these
individuals and the 9/11 .hijackers or their associates ~ould have come from his reading
of FBI documents. :: " " "
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DP was vaguely famit'iar with the connection b~tweeJ \. bephew ~~d thehotel in New
Jersey where some of the 9111 hijackers stayed; DP didnot think therewas arty overlap
between whenDr his nephew stayed in that'hotel and when the hijac~,ers stayed there.
DP was unfamiliar with any other possible link~ betweeri \ tmd 9/} 1. "'..,

When asked, DP recalled thatdattends the Dar al-Hijra Mosque '\n Falls Church:\Dis
a Christian, so he does not attend any mosque the area. in ", ",

When asked about possible connections tothe Saudi Embassy, DP recalled thaQhas
some friends who work as contract employees at the Embassy and thate::}o-owned an
apartment with one of those friends. DP could ~ot remember the friend's name.

DP did not know of any ties between I [and the Skyline butcher shop.
 DP did not know of any ties between I~d New Jersey (other than that]
nephew and his wife are in New Jersey), ......_ .....

DP stated that he has interviewed DQn several occasions. The case numbe'r fo~·D
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