Cablegate: Leahy Vetting for Asia-Pacific Center for Security

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P 061021Z MAR 08
FM AMEMBASSY DHAKA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6405
INFO RUHEHMS/COMMARFORPAC PRIORITY
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RHHMUNA/CDR USPACOM HONOLULU HI PRIORITY
RUEKJCS/CJCS WASHDC PRIORITY

UNCLAS DHAKA 000297

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DEPT FOR SCA/RA ATTN: JOSEPH BRENNIG

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
SUBJECT: LEAHY VETTING FOR ASIA-PACIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY
STUDIES COURSE, APR-MAY 2008

1. This is an action request. See para three.

2. The following candidate has been selected for
participation in the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
(APCSS) executive course to be held from April 3 to May 20,
2008 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Post vetting was completed on
March 6, 2008. Post requests that vetting be completed by
March 19, 2008, to provide sufficient time for processing.
Post requests the department conduct Leahy vetting for the
following candidate:

Name: Mashiul Azam
Rank: Air Commodore
Unit: Commanding Officer, Kurmitola Air Force Base
Unit Location: Dhaka
Personal Number: BD 7376
Date of Birth: December 1, 1958
Place of Birth: Jessore, Bangladesh

3. Post requests that the Department of State authorize post
to make the following statement to the relevant DOD units:
"Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no
credible information of gross violations of human rights by
the above named individual or unit."

4. Post Human Rights Officer is Luke Zahner, unclass
e-mail:zahnerlv@state.gov.

5. COMMENT: Embassy has no information to indicate this
individual or any unit he has served in has been involved in
gross violations of human rights.
Pasi

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