Claes denied categorically that they had ever known of the existence of an Agusta proposal, and told the NATO ambassadors that he did not know anything about an Agusta payment to the Socialist Party.

Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Claes claimed not to know of the Agusta payment."?

OPT:
+Yes.
+It's impossible to say.
+No.
I think the answer is
Yes