9/11 Commission Document Request for Pentagon about Military Exercises, Use of Aircraft as Weapons

Thomas H. Kean CHAIR Lee H. Hamilton VICE CHAIR Richard Ben-Veniste Ma x deknd Fred F. Fielding Jamie S. Gorelick Slade Gorton John Lehman TimothyJ. Roemer James R. Thompson Philip D. Zelikow EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DoD DOCUMENT REQUEST NO. 18 Th e National Comm ission on Terrorist Attacks Upon th e United States (the "Commission") requests that the Department of Defense (DoD or the "respondent") provide th e Commission with copies of the following documents no later than December 10, 2003 (the "production date"). Fo r purposes of this request, "NORAD" includes NORAD headquarters and all regions, sectors, an d associated units. 1. The current version of NORAD Instruction 10-45 ("CINCNORAD Exercise Program"), and the version that was in effect on September 11, 2001. * COMPLETE. 2. Th e Announcement Message, Concept an d Objectives Statement (C&O), Exercise Specifications (EXSPEC), Exercise Plan (EXPLAN), Master Scenario Events Listing (MSEL), and Control Instructions (COSIN) for the following exercises: Vigilant Guardian 99 Vigilant Guardian 01 Amalgam Virgo 01 * DO D says this line item is completed. * However, upon review only th e MSEL fo r Amalgam V irgo 01 has been provided to the Commission. * Documents provided by DOD per that ar e n o t responsive to the line item include the following: - Announcemen t Message fo r 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 Upda te Slides" (NCT0053397) - "Vigilant Guardian Webpage Spins Reminder" (NCT0053406) - "Fighter Officer VG 01-2 Exerci se" (NCT0053424) - "Vigilant Guardian Brief (NCT0053443) * Commission requests LtCol Jones contact NORAD and inquire about the outstanding documents per Item 2. 3. Al l after action final reports related to the exercises listed in Item 2, including bu t no t 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 an d provide copies of any "interim," "draft," "preliminary," or other documents n ot deemed a "final" report. * COMPLETE. T E L (202) 331-4060 F A X (202) 296-5545 www.9-1 lcommission.gov Comment: NOT RESPONSIVE