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UNCLASSIFIED prompted  to replace   individuals responsible for supporting the CIA's detention facility. Those officials were replaced by different officials whom the CIA believed were not supportive of the CIA's detention site. Despite considerable effort by the CIA's Station in Country to retain support for DETENTION SITE GREEN from its new  partners,  called for the closing of the CIA detention facility within three weeks. Continued lobbying by the chief of Station, however, eventually led Country to reverse this decision, allowing DETENTION SITE GREEN to remain operational.

(TS////NF) On April, 2002, the CIA Station in Country attempted to list the number of Country  officers who, "[t]o the best of Station's knowledge," had "knowledge of the presence of Abu Zubaydah" in a specific city in Country. The list included eight individuals, references to "various" personnel and the "staff" of , and concluded "[d]oubtless many others." By April, 2002, a media organization had learned that Abu Zubaydah was in Country , prompting the CIA to explain to the media organization the "security implications" of revealing the information. The CIA Station in Country also expressed concern that press inquiries "would do nothing for our liaison and bilateral relations, possibly diminishing chances that [the  of Country ] will permit [Abu Zubaydah] to remain in country or that he would accept other [Abu Zubaydah]-like renderees in the future." In November 2002, after the CIA learned that a major U.S. newspaper knew that Abu Zubaydah was in Country, senior CIA officials, as well as Vice President Cheney, urged the newspaper not to publish the information. While the U.S. newspaper did not reveal Country as the location of Abu Zubaydah, the fact that it had the information, combined with previous media interest, resulted in the decision to close DETENTION SITE GREEN.


 * 4. FBI Officers Are the First to Question Abu Zubaydah, Who States He Intends to Cooperate; Abu Zubaydah is Taken to a Hospital Where He Provides Information the CIA Later Describes as "Important" and "Vital"

(TS////NF) After Abu Zubaydah was rendered to DETENTION SITE GREEN on March, 2002, he was questioned by special agents from the Federal Bureau of Page 24 of 499 UNCLASSIFIED