Guide for interrogators tells how FBI agent turned suspect into
informant  Network News  X Profile View More Activity By Walter
Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 30, 2010;
7:33 PM  FBI Special Agent Stephen Gaudin "reached into his
pocket and handed out butterscotch candy to everyone in the
truck, including the detainee."  It was Aug. 11, 1998, four days
after a bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, killed
218 people - including 12 Americans - and wounded thousands.
Gaudin was part of an FBI-run team that had flown to Nairobi
three days earlier to help authorities investigate.  With two
Kenyan military police officers and a New York police detective,
he was following up on a tip that a "man who didn't fit in" was
staying at a hotel in a Nairobi suburb inhabited primarily by
Somalis. The Kenyans had gone into the hotel and returned with
the cleanly dressed suspect who had stitches on his forehead,
bandages on his hands, $32 in Kenyan money and eight new $100
U.S. bills.  He said he wa