J. Michael Springmann was the head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in the Reagan and former Bush administrations, from September 1987 through March 1989.
[1] While stationed in Saudi Arabia, Springmann was "ordered by high level State Dept officials to issue visas to unqualified applicants".
Springmann: There was one instance of two Pakistanis who came to me, and they wanted to get to an American auto parts trade show.
But when I complained to the powers in the consulate, and the people in Riyadh, I was told to keep quiet, that there was reasons for doing this, that it wasn't a case of my poor judgment, it was this and it was that.
Germany’s own refugee program, designed to exploit migrants as cheap labor, made US intelligence efforts all the easier."