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thanks, would be helpful in ari unclassified context if the document itself referred to the fact that your information comes from an ppen source a la CIA briefing request #6, thanks Yoel Tobin wrote:

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2002, entitled "Friend or;Foe: The Story of a Traitor to al Qaeda[:] Divided Allegiances in Yemen Undo the Betrayier, Who Himself is Betrayed." Yoel I \l Message-!-— From: Steve Dgnne i Sent; Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:57 AM Cc: Yoel Tobin Subject: RE: DCI document request no. 29 My understanding is that all the information in the request came from a Wall Street Journal article. If you; still think it needs to be classified, please talk to Yoel. Thanks. i \l Message— From;! I I Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:22 PM To: Steve Durine Subject: Re: DCI document request no. 29 steve: this should have been classified. Steve Dunne iwrote: [Attached as a Word document is Dd document request no. 29. Please call Yoel Tobin at 202-331-4071 with any questions about this request and to arrange for production. Feel free to call Dan or me as well if any issues arise. Thanks. Steve

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Cc: '[email protected]'; Dan Marcus; Team 1; Dianna Campagna Subject: DCI document request no. 29

| I Attached as a Word document is DCI document request no. 29. Please call Yoel Tobin at 202331-4071 with any questions about this request and to arrange for production. Feel free to call Dan or me as well if any issues arise. Thanks. Steve

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DCI DOCUMENT REQUEST No. 29

CHAIR

Lee H. Hamilton VICE CHAIR

Richard Ben- Veniste Fred F. Fielding Jamie S. Gorelick Slade Gorton Bob Kerrey John Lehman Timothy J. Roemer James R Thompson Philip D. Zelikow EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "Commission") requests that the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI or the "respondent") provide the Commission with copies of the following documents no later than January 21, 2004 (the "production date"): 1. All statements, debriefings, reports, documents, videotapes, audiotapes, or other materials deriving from or relating to Ahmed Nasrallah, aka Abu Ibrahim al Masry. 2. To the extent not already produced in response to item 1 above, all statements, debriefings, reports, documents, videotapes, audiotapes, or other materials relating to a purported 1998 defector from al Qa'ida who allegedly approached the Yemeni intelligence agency, which then allegedly alerted al Qa'ida. To the extent the requested materials are not in English but have been translated into English, the Commission requests copies of the English translations rather than copies of the originals. The Commission requests that the documents requested above be provided as soon as they are available, even though all requested documents may not be provided at the same time, through means of a "rolling" production. If any requested documents are withheld from production, even temporarily, based on an alleged claim of privilege or for any other reason, the Commission requests that the respondent, as soon as possible and in no event later than the production date, identify and describe each such document or class of documents, as well as the alleged basis for not producing it, with sufficient specificity to allow a meaningful challenge to any such withholding. If the respondent does not have possession, custody or control of any requested documents but has information about where such documents may be located, the Commission requests that the respondent provide such information as soon as possible and in no event later than the production date. If the respondent has any questions or concerns about the interpretation or scope of these document requests, the Commission requests that any such questions or concerns be raised with the Commission as soon as possible so that any such issues can be addressed and resolved prior to the production date. January 7, 2004

Daniel Marcus, General Counsel TEL (202) 331-4060 FAX (202) 296-5545 www.9-1 lcommission.gov

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Subject: RE: DCI Doc Request on Yemeni Defector Yoel -- OK - let's go with your re-formulation. Steve -1 clear Original Message From: Yoel Tobin Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:29 AM To: Chris Kojm Cc: Team 1; Steve Dunne Subject: RE: DCI Doc Request on Yemeni Defector According to a WSJ article (I am putting a copy in your box), a veteran jihadist walked into the Yemeni PSO, offered to help unravel UBL's network, and gave valuable information about AQ and jihadists (e.g., where militants, including Zawahiri, were hiding; location of AQ encampments in Yemen; and extremists' weaponry, security, and violent plans for the future, including a jihad to turn Yemen into a new Afghanistan). The Yemeni PSO debriefed the defector -- and then tipped off AQ. Bin Laden's people grabbed the defector, grilled him, and made plans to have him killed, but he escaped and made his way to Egypt, where he was jailed and interrogated. In rereading the document request, we could perhaps make it a bit more precise by saying, in #2, "to the extent not covered by # 1 above, all statements, debriefings, reports, documents, videotapes, audiotapes, and other materials relating to a purported 1998 defector from Al Qaeda who allegedly approached the Yemeni intelligence agency, which then alerted Al Qaeda." Also, there is one other aspect of this that we can discuss off-line. Original Message From: Chris Kojm Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:53 PM To: Yoel Tobin Cc: Steve Dunne Subject: FW: DCI Doc Request on Yemeni Defector Yoel - Don't know if your request is garbled. This guy was interrogated by Yemeni intelligence, and then turned over to al-Qaeda????? Original Message From: Steve Dunne Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:38 PM To: Front Office Subject: FW: DCI Doc Request on Yemeni Defector For your review. —Original Message— From: Yoel Tobin

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age Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:37 PM To: Dan Marcus; Steve Dunne Cc: Team 1; Team 1A; Team 3 Subject: DCI Doc Request on Yemeni Defector Dan: Here is a proposed document request, based on a Wall Street Journal article a copy of the article in your box. Yoel

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DCI DOCUMENT REQUEST NO. The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "Commission") requests that the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI or "respondent") provide the Commission with copies of the following documents and other materials no later than January , 2004 (the "production date"): 1. all statements, debriefings, reports, documents, videotapes, audiotapes, and other materials deriving from or relating to Ahmed Nasrallah, aka Abu Ibrahim al Masry; 2. to the extent not covered by #1 above, all statements, debriefings, reports, documents, videotapes, audiotapes, and other materials relating to a purported 1998 defector from Al Qaeda who allegedly approached the Yemeni intelligence agency, was interrogated by it, and then turned over to al Qaeda. To the extent these materials are not in English but have been translated into English, we would request copies of the English translations rather than the original materials. The Commission requests that the materials requested above be provided as soon as they are available, even though all requested materials may not be provided at the same time, through means of a "rolling" production. If any requested materials are withheld from production, even temporarily, based on an alleged claim of privilege or for any other reason, the Commission requests that the respondent, as soon as possible and in no event later than the production date, identify and describe each such item or class of items, as well as the alleged basis for not producing it, with sufficient specificity to allow a meaningful challenge to any such withholding. If the respondent does not have possession, custody or control of any requested materials but has information about where such materials may be located, the Commission requests that the respondent provide such information as soon as possible and in no event later than the production date. If the respondent has any questions or concerns about the interpretation or scope of these requests, the Commission requests that any such questions or concerns be raised with the Commission as soon as possible so that any such issues can be addressed and resolved prior to the production date. December ,2003 Daniel Marcus General Counsel

December 20, 2002 10:23 a.m. EST PAGE ONE December 20, 2002 Friend or Foe: The Story Of a Traitor to al Qaeda Divided Allegiances in Yemen Undo The Betrayer, Who Himself Is Betrayed By ANDREW HIGGINS and ALAN CULLISON Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SANAA, Yemen - Fed up after two decades of Islamist plotting, the veteran Egyptian militant decided to jilt the jihad. In early 1998, he walked into the heavily guarded offices of Yemen's intelligence agency, the Political Security Organization, with a startling proposal: He could help unravel Osama bin Laden's network. He disclosed the hiding places in Yemen of foreign terrorists, including one who would shortly become Mr. bin Laden's chief lieutenant. He described the extremists' weaponry, security and violent plans for the future. He revealed the locations of al Qaeda encampments in and around Marib, a desert region scattered with ruins of the biblical kingdom of Sheba. But instead of cracking down on the militants, members of Yemen's security service tipped them off. Mr. bin Laden's acolytes grabbed their turncoat, grilled him about his treachery and made plans to send him to Afghanistan to be killed. What should have been a triumph in a shadowy struggle against terrorism became an intelligence coup for the terrorists. Safe in Yemen, they went on to launch a string of attacks there, from the bombing of the USS Cole to an assault on a French oil tanker, the Limburg, this fall. On Nov. 3, more than four years after the warning about camps in Marib, the desert region was targeted for a lethal assault - not by the Yemenis but by the Central Intelligence Agency. Monitoring satellite-telephone chit-chat, the CIA tracked two Toyotas carrying suspected al Qaeda members across the desert. An unmanned U.S. spy plane then fired a Hellfire missile that incinerated six people, including Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, a Yemeni suspected of helping organize the Cole attack. The missile strike blew a hole in a diplomatic fagade, as well. After Sept. 11, President Bush gave the world a simple choice: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." Yemen - Mr. bin Laden's ancestral homeland - and other hotbeds of Islamist sentiment such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia declared themselves "with us." Their leaders pledged unequivocal support for the struggle against al Qaeda. But within these nations' bureaucracies, not to mention their citizenries, the lines of loyalty are fuzzy. The U.S.-Yemen relationship is unusually delicate today, after the U.S. asked Spain's

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e-mail re: DCI Document Request #29

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