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- Date: Wed 11 Nov 1992 19:34:56
- >From: Moderators<tk0jut2@mvs.cso.niu.edu>
- Subject: File 7--Transcript from Al Johnson Interview
-
- ((MODERATORS' NOTE: Al Johnson, Director of Security for the Pentagon
- City Mall, has denied saying that the US Secret Service was involved
- in the 2600 disruption, and he has given other news sources a
- different version than he gave to Brock Meeks. The following are Al
- Johnson's original comments as transcribed from the original
- conversation. We leave it to readers to decide for themselves what Al
- --More--[Press space to continue, 'q' to quit.]Johnson said in the initial interview.))
-
- Further information may be obtained from Brock Meeks at:
- (202) 872-9202 ex. 271; or
- 2115 Ward Ct. NW, Washington, DC 20037
- +++++
-
- Transcript of interview with Mr. Al Johnson, Dir. Security for
- Pentagon City Mall
-
- B. Meeks: I'd like to ask you a few questions about an incident where
- some of your security guards broke up a meeting of some hackers
- on Friday (Nov. 6).
-
- Al Johnson: They broke up some meeting of hackers?
-
- B. Meeks: Yes.
-
- AJ: I don't know about breaking any meeting up. Who... first of
- all I can't talk to you on the phone, if you want to come in, I
- don't talk to the press on the phone.
-
- --More--[Press space to continue, 'q' to quit.]B. Meeks: OK
-
- AJ: Ahh... maybe you outta call the Secret Service, they're
- handling this whole thing. We, we were just here.
-
- B. Meeks: the Secret Service was part of this?
-
- AJ: Well, FBI, Secret Service, everybody was here, so you might
- want to call their office and talk to them. There's not much I
- can really tell you here.
-
- B. Meeks: OK
-
- AJ: Our involvement was minimum, you know, minimal.
-
- B. Meeks: I see, but your folks were acting on...
-
- AJ: We didn't break anything... I.. we didn't.. as far as I
- know, well I can't say much on the phone. But I, well,
- somebody's awfully paranoid apparently. Where'd you get this
- information from?
-
- --More--[Press space to continue, 'q' to quit.]B. Meeks: Umm.... from computer bulletin boards
-
- AJ: Bulletin Boards?
-
- B. Meeks: Yep.
-
- AJ: When did you get it?
-
- B. Meeks: I got it, ah, Sunday night.
-
- AJ: Sunday night?
-
- B. Meeks: Yep.
-
- AJ: [small laugh] Ah, yeah, you gotta call the FBI and the
- Secret Service there's not much I can do for you here.
-
- B. Meeks: Ok. Al, if I come down there will you talk to me to down
- there?
-
- AJ: No. I can't talk to you at all. Fact is, there's nothing
- to talk about. Our involvement in anything was minimal, I don't
- --More--[Press space to continue, 'q' to quit.]know where this information came from as far as bulletin boards,
- and breaking meetin's up and you know...
-
- B. Meeks: Well, the Arlington police were down there too. I mean I've
- talked to several of the kids that were involved.
-
- AJ: Um-hmmm
-
- B. Meeks: They said, that ah, members of your, of the mall security
- forces, ah, or security staff, searched them, confiscated some
- material and didn't give it back. Did any of this happen?
-
- AJ: Like I said, I'm not, I'm not able to talk to you... we have
- a policy that we don't talk to the press about anything like
- that. You can call the Secret Service, call the FBI, they're the
- ones that ramrodded this whole thing, and you talk to them, we're
- out of this basically, you know, as far as I'm concerned here.
-
- B. Meeks: Ok. Is there a contact person over there that you can...
-
- AJ: Ah.. you know, I don't have a contact person. These people
- were working on their own, undercover, we never got any names,
- --More--[Press space to continue, 'q' to quit.]but they definitely, we saw identification, they were here.
-
- B. Meeks: They were there. So it was all the Secret Service and none
- of your men?
-
- AJ: Ah, nah, that's not what I said. But they're the ones you
- want to talk to. There's nothing I can really ya. Okay?
-
- B. Meeks: Okay.
-
- AJ: Thanks.
-
- B. Meeks: Bye.
-
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