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MEMORANDUM FOR COMMISSIONER BEN-VENISTE
FROM: DANA HYDEDATE: August
22,2003
SUBJECT: Status
of
Team
8's DoD
Document RequestsPer our conversation yesterday, outlined below is a brief overview of where we standwith
respect
to the DOD
Document Requests.
(1)
Requests Submitted:
The
Commission
has
submitted
six
document requests
to
DoD.Issues of concern to Team 8 are embodied in Request Nos.
1,2,4
and 5. Request No. 2relates to the historical project being conducted by the Naval Historical Center, and isbeing managed by Kevin
Shaeffer.
My understanding is that he is satisfied with theirprogress. Request No. 5 was a specific tasking to the Air Force for the creation of radardata
on an
autoplay
CD; it has
been
fully
completed.
Requests
No. 1 and 4
seek NORAD documents
related to the air
defense
operation on
9/11,as well as NORAD's policies and procedures related to hijackings. Request No. 1
was
submitted
on May
9th, with
a
production date
of May
23
rd
;
Request
No. 4 was
submittedonJune 13th, withaproduction dateofJune 30
th
.(2)
Documents Received:
DoD is Bates stamping and indexing all of the documents itdelivers to the Commission. According to DoD's index, it has thus far delivered 23,580pages to the Commission, with the most recent delivery on August
15th.
Two
items
are
outstanding
from
DoD
Request
No
1:
(1) the Air
Threat Conference Call(Item 3), and (2) "All documents relating to communications between NORAD and theFAA concerning
the
tracking
of
hijacked airplanes
on
9/11/01"
(Item 13).
DoD has
delivered some documents responsive
to
this issue,
but my
sense
is
there
is
still more
outstanding.
Request No. 4 really focuses on NORAD and comprehensively asks for all operationalmaterial related
to the air
defense operation
on
9/11.
Per
DoD's suggestion, Team
8
prioritized Request
No. 4 so
that
the first two
pages (Items 1-16) represent
our
priorityneeds. To date, DoD has provided documents that are responsive to Items 2, 10 and
16
(we areunsure whether this represents partialor
full
completionofthese requests).We
met
with
DoD in
July
and at
that time learned
from
DoD's
point-of-contact that
the
internal
deadline
for
NORAD
to
submit
its
documents
to the
Pentagon
was
August 5th.
I
spoke with
DoD's
point-of-contact
last
week
and she
informed
me
that they
are
stillgetting documents in, and that some are in process (i.e. being reviewed by the
Counsel's
office,
indexed
and
Bates
stamped).
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