Mother Jones
On Thursday, Mother Jones broke the story of Naji Mansour, an American living abroad who refused to become a government informant—and saw his life, and his family’s, turned upside-down. After he rebuffed the government’s advances, Mansour was banned from returning to his family’s home in Kenya, locked up for 37 days in a squalid prison in South Sudan, and eventually found himself living in Khartoum, where two FBI agents he had met before, Mike Jones and Peter Smith (pseudonyms we created at the FBI’s request), tried again to win his trust. Mansour recorded the conversation, which you can listen to above; a full transcript follows below.
MJ: Mike Jones, an FBI agent
NM: Naji Mansour, an American living abroad
PS: Peter Smith, a second FBI agent
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Listen to a Secret Tape of FBI Agents Interviewing—and Threatening—a Potential Informant
