MEMORANDUM

FO R

COM MISSI ONER

BEN-VENISTE

FROM: DANA HYDE DATE:

June

4,

2003

SUBJECT:

Status of NORAD/FAA Follow Up Per our conversation today, outlined below is a brief over view of where w e stand with respect

to the

issues raised

at t he

recent aviation hearing.

As you can

see,

we are

pursuing

information on a number of

different fronts.

I wo uld be happy to discuss these items with you in great er detail at you r convenience.

(1 )

Questions

for the Record:

Attached ar e questions for the recor d tha t were sent t o NOR AD today. As we discussed, most of the i ssues rais ed at the hearing will be the

subject

of team docume nt requests and intervi ews; ou r questions for th e recor d were

therefore

purposefully

limited in some areas.

(2 )

D oD Third

ocument

Request:

Attached

is a

draft

follow-up documen t r equest

to

th e

D efense Department, based on the hearing and the documents revi ewed thus far. W e

intend

t o

finalize

the requ est by Friday

COB.

(3 )

FBI Document Request:

As you know, at the hearing the FAA witnesses did not provide any detail s of what happened on

9/11

(e.g ., how m any hijackers were pu lled asi de at security, did they have box cutters, etc. ), and instead

passed

s

al l

factual

inquiries to the FBI. The

staff

has since r eceiv ed a briefing

from

th e

FBI s

PENTTBOM investigation; we are in the proc ess o f

drafting

a FBI documen t request that focuses on

PENTTBOM s

investigation of the

flights

and what happened that day.

(4 )

Secret

Service Document Request:

Attached

is our

outstanding document request

to

th e

Secr et Service that includes all docum ents relating to comm unications betwee n the USSS

an d

Andrews

A ir

Force Base.

I

have spoken

to the

Secret Service

point

of

contact

an d

we shou ld be on track to meet the June

13 ,

2003

return date.

5

Briefi ng at FAA :

Tea m 7 and Tea m 8 spe nt

four

hou rs today at t he FAA operati ons center, receiving a

briefing

from

many of the

staff

that were in the operations center o n September

I I

4

.

As part of the briefing the

staff

lis ted to the cockpit voic e transmissions

an d

viewed the radar data

from

th e

hijacked

airl iners. W e should have a comprehensive memo on the briefing by the end of the week.

(6 )

FAA DoD

Documents Received:

T o

date, Team

8 has

received

th e

first

installment o f documents

from