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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
Office of General Counsel
29 October 2003
Mr. Daniel Marcus, General Counsel
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Upon the United States
3 Ploor
2100 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20427
RE: (WU) Documents Responsive to Item Nos. 3, 4, and 33
of DCI Document Request No. 8
Dear Mr. Marcus:
(0) This is our latest response to Item Nos. 3, 4, 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”). As you know, in your
memorandum of 26 August 2003, you identify Item Nos. 3 and 4 as
among the “most important categories of documents requested by
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 0800911
through 0800922 and 0800926 through 0800935. 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
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Documents potentially responsive to Item Nos. 3 of
DR #8 pertaining to briefing packages for Principals and
Deputies meetings (bates-stamp Nos. 0800911 through
0800914) ;
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.
0800915 through 0800922); and
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. 0800926 through
0800935) .
(J) Please note the following regarding this production of
documents.
(U) First, some of these documents contain classified
removed from the Gocuments placed in the Commission’s reading
office.
(UW) Second, some of these doctinents pertain to categories
of documents and types of information to which, by prior
agreement, only certain menbers of the Commission and its staff
have access As with classified compartmented information, all
documents subject to limited access are held inf]
joffice at CIA headquarters These.documents have been
Taroved from the docutients placed in the Commission's reading
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any searches for documents potentially responsive to Commission
requests. The searches for Item Nos. 3, 4, and 33 of DR #8 did
retrieve NSC-related documents which we have forwarded to Mr
Levin. We understand that Mr. Levin will be responsible for the
possible production of these materials to the Commission
(0) If you have any questions, please contact me at (703)
874-3106.
Assistant General Counsel
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