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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

Office of General Counsel

25 March 2004

Mr. Daniel Marcus, General Counsel National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Third Floor 2100 K Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20427 Re:

(U) Response to Item No. 9 of DCI Document Request No. 27 and to a Special Request for Documents made at Mr. Mike Scheuer's Interview on 6 January 2004

Dear Mr. Marcus: (U) This responds to Item No. 9 of DCI Document Request No. 27 (DR#27), issued by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "Commission") on 24 December 2003. (U) A document responsive to this request is being produced as document No. 2700115. By prior agreement, this document is of a type that is being retained by the Agency, and the document is available for your inspection in the Commission's reading room at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. Please note that document No. 2700115 is also .responsive to a special request for documents made by the Commission during Mr. Mike Scheuer's interview on 6 January 2004.

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

Office of General Counsel 2 December 2003

Mr. Daniel Marcus General Counsel National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 3rd Floor 2100 K Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20427 RE:

(U) Documents Responsive to Item Nos. 3, 4, 5, 8, 20, and 33 of DCI Document Request No. 8

Dear Mr. Marcus: (U) This is our latest response to Item Nos. 3, 4, 5, 8, 20, and 33 of DCI Document Request No. 8 ("DR #8), dated 3 July 2003, issued by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "Commission"). (U) The first page of each enclosed document has been sequentially bates-stamped. In this, and all future document productions, the first two digits of the bates-stamp identifies the specific DCI Document Request to which the document responds and the remaining digits refer to the document number. (U) This production includes document numbers 0801385 through 0801405 and 0801348 and 0801349. All of these documents are, by prior agreement, being retained by the Agency and are available for your inspection at CIA headquarters. They include copies of: 1. Documents potentially responsive to Item Nos. 3 of DR #8 pertaining to briefing packages for Principals and Deputies meetings (bates-stamp Nos. 0801385 through 0801391); Downgrade to UNCLASSIFIED When separated from attachments

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2. Documents potentially responsive to Item Nos. 4 of DR #8 pertaining to DCI presentations to the President and Vice President of the United States (bates-stamp Nos. 0801392 through 0801394); 3. Documents potentially responsive to Item No. 5 of DR #8 pertaining to preparatory materials for the DCI's meetings with the National Security Advisor (bates-stamp Nos. 0801395 through 0801396); 4. Documents potentially responsive to Item No. 8 of DR #8 pertaining to lessons learned from prior terrorist attacks (bates-stamp Nos. 0801397 through 0801402); 5. Documents potentially responsive to Item No. 20 of DR #8 pertaining to "data at rest" or "communications at rest" (bates-stamp Nos. 0801348 through 0801349); and 6. Documents potentially responsive to Item Nos. 33 of DR #8 pertaining to materials prepared by the Counterterrorist Center for briefing to the DCI that "concerned UBL, al Qa'ida, or [certain] other foreign terrorist threats" (bates-stamp Nos. 0801403 through 0801405) . (U) By prior agreement, some of the above documents pertain to categories of documents and types of information to which only certain members of the Commission and its staff have access. All documents subject to limited access are held in| 9/n closed by statute office at CIA headquarters. These documents have been removed from the documents placed in the Commission's reading room at CIA and replaced with placeholders indicating that, the document is subject to limited access and located in I g/n'ciosed by statute I office. ' *

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

Office of General Counsel

5 December 2003

Mr. Daniel Marcus, General Counsel National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 3rd Floor 2100 K Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20427 RE:

(U) Documents Responsive to Item Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 33, 36 and 37 of DCI Document Request No. 8

Dear Mr. Marcus: (U) This responds to Item Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 33, 36 and 37 of DCI Document Request No. 8 ( "DR #8), dated 3 July 2003, issued by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "Commission"). (U) The first page of each enclosed document has been sequentially bates-stamped. In this, and all future document productions, the first two digits of the bates-stamp identifies the specific DCI Document Request to which the document responds and the remaining digits refer to the document number. (U) This production includes document numbers 0800923 through 0800925, and 0801406 through 0801422. All of. these documents are, by prior agreement, being retained by the Agency and are available for your inspection at CIA headquarters. They include copies of: 1. Documents responsive to Item No. 3 of DR #8 (bates-stamp Nos. 0801406 through 0801407); Downgrade to UNCLASSIFIED When separated from attachments

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2. Documents responsive to Item No. 4 of DR#8 pertaining to documents or presentations given by the DCI to the President and Vice President (bates-stamp Nos. 0801416 through 0801419, and 0801421 through 081422) 3. A document responsive to Item No. 5 of DR #8 (bates-stamp No. 0801408); and 4. Documents responsive to Item No. 8 of DR #8 pertaining to CIA after-action reports or "lessons learned" (bates-stamp Nos. 0800923 through 0800925); 5. Documents responsive to Item No. 33 of DR #8 (bates-stamp Nos. 0801409, 0801411 through 0801415, and 0801420) (Please note document numbers 0801409 and 0801420 are also responsive to Item No. 6 of DR #8.); and 6. A document responsive to Item No. 36 of DR #8 (bates-stamp No. 0801410) (Please note document number 0801410 is also responsive to Item No. 6 of DR #8). (U) Please note the following regarding this production of documents. (U) First, by prior agreement, some of the above documents pertain to categories of documents and types of information to which only certain members of the Commission and its staff have access. All documents subject to limited access are he9/11 closed by statute 19/11 closed by statute) off jce at CIA headquarters. These documents have been removed from the documents placed in the Commission's reading room at CIA and replaced with placeholders indicating that the document is subject to limited access and located in. I

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(U) Second, the inclusion of talking points as part of the Agency's response does not mean that such talking points were actually used by the DCI. In addition, the listing of topics in the talking points does not establish that the DCI actually discussed the topic. Likewise, the absence of talking points concerning a particular subject does not establish that the topic was not discussed between the officials, but only that no talking points were drafted for the topic.

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