CIA, Thai agencies unite against terrorism -
Financial Review, October 3, 2003
The Thai government, which has often asserted that Thailand
is free of terrorists, has never publicly acknowledged the existence
of the CTIC...
Senior Thai security officials said the impetus to establish the
CTIC came in early 2001, after they received reports from their
US counterparts that suspected terrorists with links to al-Qaeda
were using Thailand as a transit and meeting place...
Maintaining Thailand's neutral image was part of a deliberate
effort to lure terrorism plotters to Thai soil, said regional
security officials familiar with the situation.
If Thailand could preserve the perception among suspected terrorists
that the country was a safe place to meet and relax, then the
CTIC and CIA could monitor their movements without raising suspicion.
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