Well the CIA arranged visas multiple times for Sheikh Omar Rahman, despite public protestations from countries like Egypt who labeled him a terrorist. He was the alleged mastermind of the first bombing attack on the World Trade Center in the 1990s:
There's also a tie in with the incredible story of Ali Mohamed
>It is in the story of Ali Mohamed, dubbed “Al Qaeda’s triple agent,” that the incredible ties between US intelligence and Al Qaeda are revealed. Indeed, the tale of Mohamed’s unlikely career—described as “the most tantalizing and complex story in the history of al Qaeda’s war against America”—is so utterly unbelievable that a Hollywood scriptwriter would reject it for being too implausible.
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/22/nyregion/cia-officers-pla...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tradecenter-rahman-id...
Sheikh Omar Rahman was also a critical player in creating and recruiting Uyghur terrorists.
Awlaki of Al Qaeda fame was allegedly a CIA asset:
https://realalexrubi.substack.com/p/leaked-cia-pressured-yem...
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/state-of-the-union/t...