CIA achieve Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi's death

Mohammed bin Salman

The CIA has achieve that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is personally ordered to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, even with the Saudi government's rebuttal that the de factor emperor was engaged, according to a senior US official.

The senior US official said that on Friday the conclusion is based on a recording afford by the Turkish government and other evidence, along with American intelligence.

Investigators also believe that an operation such as one of that ended at the Khashoggi's death would not have happened without bin Salman's knowledge given by his control of the government, by the senior US official said.


A Saudi Embassy spokeswoman said in a details that "the claims in this purported judgement are false. We have to and continue to hear diiferent theories without seeing the primary basis for these speculations."

The Washington Post was first to report on the CIA's judgment.

According to the Post, US officials have high confidence in the CIA's judgment.

A spokesman for the CIA explain to comment to the Post. The Saudi government has ban bin Salman's involvement in Khashoggi's death.

Jamal Khashoggi

Khashoggi, a former Saudi royal insider who became a authority of the country's government, went missing in October after he visited the Saudi ministry in Istanbul to obtain papers for his upcoming marriage. The Saudi government offered changing of explanations for Khashoggi's removal.

Included in the US intelligence analyzed by the CIA was a phone call the prince's brother Khalid bin Salman made to Khashoggi, uplift the journalist to make the trip to the ministry to get the files, according to Post. Sources said the Post that Khalid made the decision at his brother's command.

Khalid denied the reports, saying on Twitter that he had never spoken to Khashoggi by phone.

"I never talked to him by phone and certainly never suggested he go to Turkey for any reason. I asked US government to reveal any info regarding this claim," Khalid told.

He told that last contact he'd had with Khashoggi was by text in October 2017.

Fatimah Baeshen, a spokeswoman for the Saudi Embassy in Washington, told Post that Khalid, who is the Saudi ambassador to the US, and Khashoggi never agreed that with "anything related to going to Turkey."