Thomas H. Kean DoD DOCUMENT REQUEST NO.

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CHAIR

Lee H. Hamilton
VICE CHAIR The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the
"Commission") requests that the Department of Defense (DoD or the "respondent")
Richard Ben-Veniste
provide the Commission with copies of the following documents no later than
Max deknd December 10, 2003 (the "production date"). For purposes of this request, "NORAD"
includes NORAD headquarters and all regions, sectors, and associated units.
Fred F. Fielding

Jamie S. Gorelick 1. The current version of NORAD Instruction 10-45 ("CINCNORAD Exercise
Program"), and the version that was in effect on September 11, 2001.
Slade Gorton
* COMPLETE.
John Lehman
2. The Announcement Message, Concept and Objectives Statement (C&O), Comment: NOT RESPONSIVE
Timothy J. Roemer
Exercise Specifications (EXSPEC), Exercise Plan (EXPLAN), Master
James R. Thompson Scenario Events Listing (MSEL), and Control Staff Instructions (COSIN) for
the following exercises:
Philip D. Zelikow Vigilant Guardian 99
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Vigilant Guardian 01
Amalgam Virgo 01
* DOD says this line item is completed.
* However, upon review only the MSEL for Amalgam Virgo 01 has been
provided to the Commission.
* Documents provided by DOD per that are not responsive to the line
item include the following:
- Announcement Message for Vigilant Condor 00 (NCT0054785)
- "AW 00-2 MSEL Listing" (NCT0054787) (which may be partly
responsive to line item 18-9)
- "V003-1 MSEL Summary Report" (NCT0054807)
- "VO 03-1 MSEL Implementor Summary Report" (NCT0054873)
- "Intelligence Update Slides" (NCT0053397)
- "Vigilant Guardian Webpage Spins Reminder" (NCT0053406)
- "Fighter Officer VG 01-2 Exercise" (NCT0053424)
- "Vigilant Guardian Brief (NCT0053443)
* Commission requests LtCol Jones contact NORAD and inquire about
the outstanding documents per Item 2.

3. All after action final reports related to the exercises listed in Item 2, including
but not limited to any reports produced by contractors or internally by
NORAD. If no "final" after action report exists for any of the exercises listed
in Item 2, please certify that no "final" report exists and provide copies of any
"interim," "draft," "preliminary," or other documents not deemed a "final"
report.
* COMPLETE.
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4. All database "lessons learned" that exist for the exercises listed in Item 2.
* 3 documents delivered (incorrectly listed in DOD Index as responsive
to 18-3).
* VG-99 and VG-01 COMPLETE.
However, database lessons learned were provided that are titled
"Amalgam Virgo Series Exercises" - not Amalgam Virgo 01
("NORAD Corrective Action Board Amalgam Virgo Exercise"
NCT0056999).
Commission requests LtColJones contact NORAD and verify that the
database lessons learned submitted are in fact all of the Amalgam
Virgo 01 database lessons learned that exist.

5. All documents related to the Concept Development Conference (CDC) and the
Initial Planning Conference (IPC) for Amalgam Virgo O2, including the
exercise planning schedule. This request includes, but is not limited to, drafts
of the Concept and Objectives Statement (C&O), the Exercise Specifications
(EXSPEC), the Exercise Plan (EXPLAN), the Master Scenario Events Listing
(MSEL), and the Control Staff Instructions (COSIN) as they existed prior to
9/11/01. For each of the documents responsive to this request, please provide
information sufficient to determine the date the document was initially drafted,
and, if applicable, the date the document was finalized.
* Approximately 201 docs delivered 12/31/03.
* All requested documents delivered with the exception of documents
related to the Concept Development Conference (CDC).
Commission requests LtCol Jones contact NORAD and inquire as to
the. status/existence of CDC related documents for AV-02.

6. All after action final reports related to Amalgam Virgo 02, including but not Comment: NOT RESPONSIVE
limited to any reports produced by contractors or internally by NORAD. If no
"final" after action report exists for Amalgam Virgo 02, please certify that no
"final" report exists and provide copies of any "interim," "draft,"
"preliminary," or other documents not deemed a "final" report.
DOD said this line item is completed.
However, upon review the documents they submitted were in fact 74
database lessons learned from Vigilant Guardian 01 (ROOD
04013691).
* LtCol Jones has for-action.

7. All database "lessons learned" that exist for Amalgam Virgo 02.
* COMPLETE

8. All after action documents (to include all final reports and all database Comment: NOT RESPONSIVE
"lessons learned") related to military exercises — since January 1993 — in
which an aircraft was hijacked and/or used as a weapon and which involved
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NORAD. If no "final" after action reports exist for these exercises, please
certify that no "final" report exists and provide copies of any "interim,"
"draft," "preliminary," or other documents not deemed a "final" report.
* 1 document delivered, "Amalgam Virgo 99-2 (Y2K) Operational
Evaluation Final Report"
* According to LtCol Jones "nothing else was received from NORAD."
* LtCol Jones has for-action.

9. The Announcement Message, Concept and Objectives Statement (C&O), Comment: NOT RESPONSIVE
Exercise Specifications (EXSPEC), Exercise Plan (EXPLAN), Master
Scenario Events Listing (MSEL), and Control Staff Instructions (COSIN) for
the exercises that involved the following events:
Hijack AL MSEL #146081
Hijack AL Event #141709
Hijack Conference Inputs for MSEL #14600
Hijack AL Exercise Cornet White 99-ACC-29/30/31
Hijack AL Event #555114; Exercise VFFI 99-1
Hijack AL - Weapon Exercise Amazon Condor 00-1
Hijack AL - Weapon Event #556768; Exercise Fencing Indian 00-2
Hijack Al - Weapon Exercise COSIN Oct 99; MSEL 14001
Hijack Mil AC Exercise Amalgam Warrior 00-2; MSEL #147412
Hijack AL - Weapon Event #146008
Hijack AL Event #140202
Hijack FORN AL Event #140206
ACFT BIO Event #144814; MSEL #144814
Hijack AL Event #142011; MSEL #142011
* 0 docs delivered.
According to LtCoi Jones NORAD says "no documents were found"
responsive to this request.
* LtCol Jones has for-action.

10. All after action final reports related to the exercises listed in Item 9, including Comment: NOT RESPONSIVE
but not limited to any reports produced by contractors or internally by
NORAD. If no "final" after action reports exist for the exercises listed in Item
9, please certify that no "final" report exists and provide copies of any
"interim," "draft," "preliminary," or other documents not deemed a "final"
report.
* According to LtCol Jones. "NORAD says they already produced these
documents back in September 2003."
Upon review, the Commission has not received any after action final
reports for the exercises associated with the events listed in Item 9.
LtCol Jones has for-action.

11. All database "lessons learned" that exist for the exercises listed in Item 9. Comment: NOT RESPONSIVE
According to LtCo! Jones, "NORAD says they already produced these
documents back in September 2003."
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* Upon review, the Commission has not received all database lessons
learned from all of the exercises associated with the events listed in
Item 9.
* LtCol Jones has for-action.

12. All documents of NORAD intelligence offices, from January 1, 1998 through
September 20, 2001, that relate to the issue of an aircraft being used as a
weapon. This request includes, but is not limited to, documents responsive to
this request in the possession of Lt. Col. Stuart at NEADS.
* Documents held up since roughly 12/19/03 due to review by OGC Stu
Aily. Rationale provided to Commission was that they believed the
docs provided had already been submitted in response to previous
document requests, and DOD didn't want to be redundant in what it
provided.
* 21 documents delivered afternoon of 1/9/04.
* 4 briefs prepared by LtCol Stuart submitted. Notably, however, the
March 24, 1999 brief by LtCol Stuart on terrorist use of aircraft as
weapons was not provided. (LtCol Stuart told the Commission staff
about this specific brief in an interview).
* LtCol Jones has for-action a request to NORAD to provide the March
24, 1999 brief if it exists.

13. The NORAD Agreement and subsequent renewals, described in paragraph 4.1
of N110-37 ("NORAD Planning and Requirements System (NPRS)), as drafted
and/or approved by the CINCNORAD from January 1, 1998 through
September 20, 2001.
* 2 documents delivered, COMPLETE.

14. The NORAD Vision, described in paragraph 4.1 of NI 10-37 as drafted and/or
approved by the CINCNORAD from January 1,1998 through September 20,
2001.
2 docs delivered. DOD says this line item is completed.
* Documents delivered ("NORAD into the 21s1 Century" and "NORAD
Vision 2010.. .and beyond") do not have any date on them that conveys
when they were published or originally created.
* Commission requests LtCol Jones contact NORAD and verify the dales
of the two documents submitted.

15. NORAD Requirements Review Report, described in paragraph 5.2 of Nil 0-37, Comment: POSSIBLY NOT
RESPONSIVE
as drafted and/or approved by CINCNORAD from January 1, 1998 through
September 20, 2001.
* 3 documents delivered 12/23/03.
* However, the documents are titled "NORAD Mission Area Analysis
Report" (1999, 2000, and 2001 submitted).
* LtCol Jones has for-action to contact NORAD and verify that either no
"Requirements Review Reports" exist for the timeframe requested,
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and/or that the Mission Area Analysis Reports submitted are similar,
(For example MARS may have been implemented in place of RRRs)

16. The NORAD Integrated Priority List, described in paragraph 5.3 of NI10-37, Comment: POSSIBLY NOT
RESPONSIVE
as drafted and/or approved by CINCNORAD from January 1, 1998 through
September 20, 2001.
* 4 docs delivered afternoon 1/9/04.
* IPLs labeled FY01, FY02, FY03, and FY04 were submitted. However,
it is not clear when the documents were originally produced (for
example was the FYOS 1PL produced in 1998?)
LtCol Jones has for-action to verify when the documents submitted
were created.

17. NORAD Mission Need Statements (MNS), described in paragraph 6 of NI10- Comment: NOT RESPONSIVE
37, regarding the subject of hijacked aircraft and drafted from January 1, 1998
through September 20, 2001.
* According to LtCol Jones. DOD OGC assessed what NORAD
provided in response to Item 17, and deemed the documents not
responsive. It appeared that DOD was going to leave it at that (no
information was provided that DOD was coordinating with NORAD to
resolve Item 17).
* On 1/8/04 Commission staff requested LtCol Jones to contact NORAD
and resolve the issue, as clearly, the request in Item 17 still stands.
LtCol Jones has for-action.

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.
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November 26, 2003 Daniel Marcus

General Counsel