Description

E-mails between the 9/11 Commission and military installations, including the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS), Otis Air Force Base, and Langley Air Force Base, from the summer and fall of 2003. The e-mails concern upcoming visits by the commission to the installations and the provision of documents prior to this.

An internal commission e-mail on page 1 dated September 30, 2003 says that NEADS has "tapes," but the commission has told it not to make copies of them due to fragility issues.

The e-mail on page 8, dated September 29, 2003, mentions the exercise Vigilant Guardian. In it commission staffer Miles Kara tells NEADS to have "tapes" ready to be listened to when the commission arrives.

The e-mail on page 19 refers to the insertion of (possibly false) information in a real-time document from the day of 9/11 following the attacks. The information apparently concerns notification to the military of the hijacking of Flight 175.

The e-mails also discuss the lack of flight strips for the fighters that took off from Langley on the day of the attacks, as well as the dates of Pentagon documents about Amalgam Virgo military exercises.