DELETION

UNCLAS RIYADH 002514 SIPDIS SENSITIVE, SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR CA/VO/I E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: CLOK SUBJECT: DELETION ¶1. SAWAF, HASSAN AKA: EL SAWAF, HASSAN ¶2. DOB: 23-MAR-1961 ¶3. POB: DAMASCUS ¶4. REFUSAL GROUNDS: P6C1 ¶5. (SBU) Post requests deletion of the following CAT 1 CLASS hit: NAME: EL SAWAF, HASSAN DOB: XXXX1961 POB: QTAR REF. CODE: P6C1 CAT: 1 REF. SITE: RID REF. DATE: 24-SEP-1997 UID: DOSVODPT19970924000270100 ¶6. (SBU) JUSTIFICATION: Embassy Damascus is processing an NIV application for HASSAN SAWAF and has requested that Embassy Riyadh submit a CLOK deletion cable to the Department. The applicant, who was last interviewed in Damascus on 25-NOV-2007, says that in 1997 he was expedited for an NIV interview by an FSN at Embassy Riyadh who was also the applicant's patient (applicant is a physician). When a second FSN asked how the applicant had managed to jump the line, the applicant refused to give the name of his FSN patient. According to applicant, this led to a refusal. The P6C1 hit appears to be related to this incident. There are no records pertaining to Mr. Sawaf in Riyadh's A-Z files. Post concurs with Embassy Damascus that story seems credible, and hit is innocuous in nature and can be deleted. ¶7. (U) MINIMIZE CONSIDERED. FRAKER