He then acted as logistics chief, investigators said, coordinating efforts in Europe and Southeast Asia and providing money to the man American prosecutors say was to take his place, Mr. Moussaoui.

Last year, the government listed Mr. Jalaidan, who heads the Saudi-based World Muslim League, as a founder of Al Qaeda and its logistics chief.

They brought out refreshments by the caseload and crowded into a small office in their headquarters to present their top officers, among them an assistant chief of staff for planning, a logistics chief and someone in charge of records.

"I shall, as Bill Slim's logistics chief said, arrange," Mike replied, grinning.

"Sir, the communications grid is in very poor shape," the logistics chief warned.

The magistrate called Gerardo Huber as a witness; Huber declared that he had been following orders from General Krumm, the logistics chief.

The operation began with the midday shooting on a suburban Santiago street of a man who the authorities said was the logistics chief of the Communist-affiliated Patriotic Front.

The authorities said Mr. Valenzuela, a 30-year-old economics instructor, was the logistics chief of the Patriotic Front, one of two Marxist-Leninist guerrilla groups operating in Chile.

"When we did the ticket brochure, we said, "You can't do this, you can do that,' said Scott Anderson, the Olympic hospitality and logistics chief.

Ibon Femandez de Iradi was the logistics chief for ETA, a Basque separatist group which has been implicated in terrorist activities.