Thomas
H.
Kean
CHAIR
Lee
H.
Hamilton
VICE CHAIR
Richard
Ben-Veniste
Max
Cleland
Fred
F.
Fielding
Jamie
S.
Gorelick
Slade
Gorton
John
LehmanTimothy J.
RoemerJames
R.
Thompson
Philip
D. Zelikow
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
DoD
DOCUMENT
REQUEST
NO. 4
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the Commission ) requests that
the
Department
of
Defense (DoD
or the
respondent )provide
the
Commission with copies
of the
following documents
no
later than June
30,
2003
(the production
date ):
1.
All
transcripts, tapes
and
other documents
related
to any
Significant Event
Conference,
or any other interagency phone conference, on
9/11/01.
2.
All documents related to the
C-130
aircraft that departed Andrews AFB shortly
after
0930
on
9/11/01,
including the crew list and their current locations. Include the
flight
plan,
the
mission
and the
controller logs/tapes. Include
any debriefings,
after
action
reports
or
other inquiry into
the
actions
of
that plane
on
that day.
3.
All transcripts, tapes and other documents related to any interagency phone
conference
that NORAD (including
all of its
components) conducted
or
participated
in
on
9/11 related to the hijackings of
9/11
and
NORAD's
response thereto.
4. All
transcripts, tapes
and
other documents related
tcfany
internal NORAD phone
conferences or
communications
on
9/11
related
to the
hijackings
of
9/11
and
NORAD's response thereto.
5.
Transcripts
of all
communications
and
orders conveyed
to
pilots scrambled
insupport of the
North East
Air
Defense
Sector's (NEADS) response
to the
hijackings
of
9/11
6. All
transcripts, tapes
and
other documents
of the
parent wings
of
aircraft
scrambled
in
support
of
NEADS'
response
on
9/11, related
to the
response
of
suchaircraft
to the
hijackings
of
9/11.
7. All
transcripts, tapes
and
other documents
of the Air
Force Bases
from
which
aircraft
were scrambled
in
support
of
NEADS's response
on
9/11,
related
to the
response
of
such aircraft
to the hijackings of
9/11.
8. The
pilot logs
for
each pilot that
was
scrambled
in
support
of
NEADS' response
to
the
hijackings
on
9/11,
including
but not
limited
to the
pilots that scrambled
out ofOtis
Air Force Base,
Langley
Air Force Base, Andrews Air Force Base, Toledo AirForce Base and
Selfridge
Air Force Base.
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9. The Air
Traffic
Control Logs
for
each base
from
which fighters were scrambled
in
support
of
NEADS
response
on 9/11, including but not limited to: Otis Air Force Base, Langley Air Force Base, Andrews AirForce Base, Toledo Air
Force
Base and
Selfridge
Air Force
Base.
10. All
NORAD
logs related to the exercise VIGILANT GUARDIAN, beginning with the morning
shift
change
on
9/11
and for the
24-hour period thereafter.
11.
Intelligence scenarios
and
briefing
papers
for all
national military
exercises,
since
January
1993,
in
which a plane was
hijacked
and/or used as a weapon and which involved any of the followingDoD entities: NORAD, JCS, and Special Operations Command (SOCOM).
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12. The
final
briefing and intelligence scenarios for NORAD
Exercises
AMALGAM VIRGO
01
and
02. With regard to AMALGAM VIRGO 02, please provide documentation of the scenario as itexisted prior to
9/11
as well as the version used in the actual
exercise.
13.
All documents of the
Office
of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special
Operations/Low-
Intensity
Conflict) prepared
for or
signed
out by the
Assistant Secretary, that address
the
mission
of
NORAD.
14.
Portions
of the
following
Office
of the
Secretary
of
Defense (OSD) documents that relate
to
NORAD:
(a) Defense
Planning Guidance(b) Contingency Planning GuidelinesThis request includes current versions
of the
aforementioned documents,
and
those versions that
were in
effect
on
9/11/01.
15.
Portions
of the
following Joint Chief
of
Staff
(JCS) documents that relate
to
NORAD:
(a)
Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan
(b)
Joint Strategic Review
..
(c)
Joint
Warfighting
Capabilities Assessment (JWCA)
for
Combating Terrorism
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This request includes current versions
of the
aforementioned documents,
and
those versions thatwere
in
effect
on
9/11/01.
With
respect
to
those
documents that were
in
effect
on
9/11, please
provide
the
staffing
package that accompanied
the
documents when submitted
for
approval
by the
Director
of the
Joint
Staff.
16. Portions
of the
following NORAD documents that
relate
to
domestic
air
defense
and/or
combating
terrorism:
(a)
Integrated Priority List
(b)
Requirements Review Report
This
request includes current versions
of the
aforementioned documents,
and
those versions
that
were
in
effect
on
9/11/01.
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17.
Annual testimony
to
Congress
of the NORAD
Commander
in
Chief
for
2000
and
2001.
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18. Documents that establish
the
universe
of
military aircraft, other than
air
defense aircraft, thatwere airborne within 150 nautical miles of the New York City and Washington D.C.
areas
anytime
from
0800
to 1030 hours on the morning of
9/11/01.
The documents should include the takeofftime, flight plan, and ordnance load of such aircraft.
19.
An Information Paper or fact sheet that establishes how
clocks
were synchronized and to whatstandard on
9/11/01
for the following: the Joint Surveillance System radar tapes, the NationalMilitary Command Center logs, the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center logs, the Northeast Air
Defense
Sector logs, and the
First
Air Force/Continental Air Defense Region logs.
20. The final
briefing
and
intelligence scenario
for the
National Reconnaissance
Office
(NRO)exercise scheduled on
9/11
concerning a plane crash into NRO headquarters.
21. The
final
briefing
and
intelligence scenario
for the October
24-26 2000
emergency
drill
based
upon
the
crashing
of an
airliner into
the
Pentagon.22. The final
briefing
and intelligence scenario for the May
2001
DoD training of medicalpersonnel to respond to a guided missile in the form of a hijacked 757
airliner
crashing into the
Pentagon.
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23. All files of Lt. Col. Dawne
Deskins
USAF, Northeast Air Defense Sector, related to the
hijackings
of
9/11.
24.
There
are
conflicting accounts
of
when NORAD
first
received notification
from
the FAA
that
American
Airlines Flight
11
had been hijacked. Please provide all documents relating to the
FAA s
notification
to
NORAD
of the
hijacking
of
Flight 11.
25. The
National Military Joint Intelligence Center (NMJIC) Senior Duty Officer
log for the 24-
hour
period beginning with
the
morning
shift
change
on
9/11
and for any
subordinate desks thatrecorded events related to the hijackings on
9/11.
26. The National SIGINT Operations Center (NSOC) Senior Duty
Officer
logs for the 24-hourperiod beginning
with
the
morning
shift
change
on
9/11,
and for any
subordinate desks that recorded
events
related to the hijackings on
9/11.
27. The
National Imagery
and
Mapping Agency
(NIMA)
logs that document imagery requests
and
responses
for the
24-hour period beginning with
the
morning
shift
change
on
9/11.
28. The
Alternate National Military Command Center
(ANMCC)
Senior Duty
Officer
log for the
24-hour period beginning with the morning
shift
change on
9/11
and for any subordinate
desks
that
recorded
events related
to the
hijackings
on
9/11.
29. The
National Emergency Airborne Command Post (NEACAP) Senior Duty
Officer
log for the
24-hour
period
following
activation
of the
Command Post.
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