Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Has Audio Of Saudi Crown Prince Asking To 'Silence' Khashoggi - Hurriyet Daily News

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) allegedly has a phone call recording, where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman can be heard asking to "silence Jamal Khashoggi as soon as possible," Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News reported on Thursday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd November, 2018) The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) allegedly has a phone call recording, where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman can be heard asking to "silence Jamal Khashoggi as soon as possible," Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily news reported on Thursday.

CIA Director Gina Haspel let it be known during last month's trip to Ankara that there was a recording of a phone call between the crown prince and Saudi Ambassador to the United States Khaled bin Salman, the outlet reported, citing Hurriyet columnist Abdulkadir Selvi.

Khashoggi, who had been a journalist and a prominent critic of Saudi Arabia's government, went missing after he entered a Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.

After weeks of denying any knowledge about his whereabouts, Riyadh admitted that the journalist had been killed inside the consulate. Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir said Khashoggi had been killed by people who criminally overstepped their authority.

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the CIA did not have any definitive answer on whether the crown prince had been aware of the prepared killing of the journalist.