"Student's tall tale revealed, Confesses fabricating US surveillance story"
By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff, December 24, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articl es/2005/12/24/students_tall_tale_revealed/

The professor, Brian Glyn Williams, said he went to his former student's house and asked about inconsistencies in his story. The 22-year-old student admitted it was a hoax, Williams said. ''I made it up," the professor recalled him saying. ''I'm sorry. . . . I'm so relieved that it's over." The student was not identified in any reports. The Globe interviewed him Thursday but decided not to write a story about his assertion, because of doubts about its veracity. The student could not be reached yesterday. Williams said the student gave no explanation. But Williams, who praised the student as hard-working and likeable, said he was shaken by the deception."