Vice President Joe Biden is the first high-level U.S.official to visit Poland since President Barack Obama canceled the planned Central European missile shield proposed by former President George W.Bush.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

There's a high level official in the White House, who was an independent monitor at the time, who said the guy wasn't even in the region.

BBC: Bob Geldof denies that any Band Aid money funded arms

In Baghdad, a high-level official in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior described, also on condition of anonymity, an elaborate system to divert weapons from Ministry of Interior facilities to local arms traffickers and militias.

NPR: U.S. Weapons from Iraq Making Their Way to Turkey

That ensures high-level official support for the project.

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