Exclusive: CIA Documents on 9/11





DCI Report: The Rise of UBL and Al Qa'ida

DCI Task Force Report: Improving Intelligence Warning, 29 May 1992

2003-03-18 Bin Attash in Los Angeles in 2000

2001-05-15 Email, Suspicious travel, Khaled and Nawaf

2001-05-24 Email, Khalid Al-Mihdar in Malaysia

2001-08-21 Email, re: Khalid Al Mihdhar

2001-Undated, Email, Khallad

2001-08-21, Email, Re: Khalid Al Mihdhar

1998-05-05 Email, To Michael Scheuer, OBL Rendition

1998-09-02 Talking points RE OBL Rendition

1998-11-18 Memo re: OBL Rendition

1998-11-24 Options for OBL (Rendition)

1998-12-20 Email to Michael Scheuer, re: urgent re: UBL (missile )

1999-02-10 Talking Points: CIA Operations Against Usama bin Ladin

1999-05-17 Email from Scheuer, your note, UBL ops

2001-05-03 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Bin Ladin Public Profile May Presage Attach

2001-06-25, Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Bin Ladin and Associates Making Near-Term Threats

2001-06-30 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Bin Ladin Planning High Profile Attacks

2001-06-23 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Bin Ladin Attacks May Be Imminent

2001-06-30 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Bin Ladin Threats Are Real

2001-07-02 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Planning for Bin Ladin Attacks Continues Despite Delay

2001-07-25 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, One Bin Ladin Operation Delayed, Others Ongoing

2001-08-07 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US

1998-12-04 Memorandum, Usama Bin Laden, From Director CIA

Presidential Daily Brief, Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US

1997-01-06 Usama bin Ladin Trying to Develop WMD Capability

1997-01-06 Usama bin Ladin Trying to Develop WMD Capability

1992-07-17 Improving Intelligence Warning

2001-08-23 DCI Update, Terrorist Threat Review, Islamic Extremist Learns To Fly

12 JUN 20 01 Biographical Information on Usama bin Ladin Associates

2001-06-24 MBC TV Carries Video Report on Bin Ladin, Followers in Training

2002-12-06 Fraudulently Acquired Saudi Passports Facilitates Al Qa'ida Travel

Undated, Bin Ladin Threatening to Attack US Aircraft

2003-06-20 Afghanistan Camps Central to 11 September Plot: Can Al Qa'ida Train on the Run?

DCI Counterterrorist Center: Attack on the US Cole, Preliminary Findings, 10 November 2000

2000-10-18 The Threat to US Personnel in Yemen

1999-04-09 Islamic Terrorists: Using Nongovernmental Organizations Extensively

1999-11-12 DCI UBL Update

2001-08-12 CIA document, Atta did not travel to Prague

Undated, Planning by Usama Bin Laden to Hijack U.S. Airplane, Successful Circumvention of Security Measures in U.S. Airport

2001-04-12 Pursuing the Bin Ladin Financial Target

2002-02-27 Identifying Al Qa'ida's Donors and Fundraisers, A Status Report

Undated, Bombings in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam -- An Update

1997-08-25 DCI Talking. Points Regarding Operations Against Usama Bin Ladin

1997-01-08 Memo on OBL Fatwas

1997-06-17 UBL financial support to Gamaat Islamiyya and others

1998-12-24 Timeframe for hijacking operation

1999-01-08 Hijacking Operation

Undated, Sudanese [redacted] ties to Gamaat Islamiyya

Undated, UBL funding of Gamaat Islamiyya

1998-12-04 Bin Ladin Preparing To Hijack US Aircraft and Other Attacks

1998-09-22 Incorporation of Ayman Al Zawahiri's Al Jihad into UBL's Al Qa'ida

Undated, Terrorism: Extremists planning attacks against US interests in Pakistan

2001-03-27 Afghanistan: An Incubator for International Terrorism

2002-11-14 Saudi-Based Financial Support for Terrorist Organizations

2001-07-03 DCI Update Terrorist Threat Review

2001-02-06 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Sunni Terrorist Threat Growing

2004-03-11 Name Variants and Aliases of 11 September Hijackers and Associates

2000-06-30 Intelligence Community Threat Advisory: Bin Ladin Orchestrating Possible Anti-US Attacks

2001-03-23 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Afghanistan: Taliban Holding Firm on Bin Ladin For Now

2001-05-23 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Terroristr Groups Said Cooperating on US Hostage Plan

2001-05-24 Call-In Threat Of High- Explosive Attack

1996-12-17 Africa Division Recommendations Regarding Sudan

1999-09-06 UAE Imposition of Sanctions Could Disrupt Bin Ladin's Finances

1999-03-16 Iraqi Delegation Meets with Bin Ladin

1997-07-14 Activities of Bin Ladin's in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India

2003-07-02 Bin Ladin Finances

1997-02-13 Al Qaeda Links to Hosni Mubarak Assassination Attempt

1997-08-11 Al Qaeda Plan to Establish Anti-Saddam Hussein Unit

1997-01-31 COOPERATION AMONG USAMA BIN LADIN' S ISLAMIC ARMY, IRAN, AND THE NIF (Sudan)

1997-01-31 TERRORISM: ESTABLISHMENT OF A TRIPARTITE AGREEMENT AMONG USAMA BIN LADIN, IRAN, AND THE NIF

1997-03-18 UBL's Attempts to Obtain Uranium

1997-04-30 USAMA BIN LADIN'S ACTIVITIES IN SOMALIA AND SUDANESE NI F SUPPORT

1997-03-05 USAMA BIN LADIN' S LINKS TO A SOUTHERN YEMENI GROUP

1997-01-08 Regarding 1992 UBL Fatwa

1996-12-19 RESPONSIBILITIES AND BACKGROUND OF ISLAMIC ARMY SHURA COUNCIL MEMBERS

2003-03-10 Al Qa'ida in Sudan, 1992-96: Old School Ties Lead Down Dangerous Paths

1996-11-26 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE ISLAMIC ARMY, AND BIN LADIN'S MOVE FROM AFGHANISTAN TO SUDAN

1997-04-18 USAMA BIN LA DIN'S HISTORICAL LINKS TO 'ABDALLAH AZZAM

2000-11-02 Bin Ladin's Terrorist Operations: Meticulous and Adaptable

1999-07-29 Ariana Afghan Airlines: Assets and Activities

2001-07-06 Expanding Links Between Alien Smugglers and Extremists: Threats to the United States

1999-12-11 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Bin Ladin to Exploit Looser Security During Holidays

Afghanistan: Strains Surface Between Taliban and Bin Ladin

Terrorist Threat to US Interests in Caucasus

2001-08-24 TERRORISM: SANITIZED VERSION OF THREAT REPORT

2000-07-14 DCI UPDATE: Islamic Extremist Terrorist Threat

2000-07-07 DCI UPDATE: Islamic Extremist Terrorist Threat

2000-05-22 DCI UPDATE: Islamic Extremist Update

2000-04 -05 DCI UPDATE: Islamic Extremist Update

2000-03-06 EXDIR Update: Islamic Extremist Terrorist Threat

2000-04-03 Islamic Extremist Update

2000-02-18 DCI Update: Islamic Extremist Terrorist Threat

2000-01-07 Update: Islamic Extremist Terrorist Threat

1999-12-16 DCI Briefing Millennium Threat

DCI Document Request No. 16, Item No. 1: Production of the [redacted] Usama Bin Ladin Situation Reports

1999-10-28 DDCI UBL Update

1999-08-03 UBL Update

2002-08-07 Terrorism: Amount of Money It Takes To Keep al-Qa'ida Functioning

1997-01-27 UBL Fatwas

1996-12-18 Structure of UBL's Islamic Army

1996-12-19 TERRORISM: ACTIVITIES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE ISLAMIC ARMY'S MILITARY COMMITTEE, AND POLITICAL AND SHARIA COMMITTEE; PROCESS OF APPROVING TERRORIST OPERATIONS

1999-01-27 How Bin Ladin Commands a Global Terrorist Network

2003-12-10 Letter to Douglas Feith from Stanley Moskowitz, Director of Congressional Affairs, re: Corrections to Iraq-AQ claims

1999-04-05 Targeting Study of US Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya

1995-12 Sketch of a South Asia-Based Terrorist Training and Logistic Network

RESPONSE TO DCI DOCUMENT REQUEST NUMBER 52, ITEM 2 (9/11 Commission)

2001: Central Intelligence: Origin and Evolution

1994-10 OIG Inspection Report: The Agency's Counterterrorism Effort





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The CIA has released nearly 800 pages of newly declassified documents on Al Qaeda and the September 11 attacks.The documents were released in response to an INTELWIRE Freedom of Information Act request for material referenced by the 9/11 Commission. Numerous documents were withheld, and those that were released have been heavily redacted. Despite this, it is highly unusual to receive any material from the CIA in response to a FOIA request, and they provide a fascinating look at the state of the agency's understanding of Al Qaeda over the years.While much of the material has been previously described, by the 9/11 Commission and other sources, seeing the actual documents still has an impact. For instance, the following extracts:The documents are presented here in two large PDFs. Each individual document is bookmarked within the PDF. Almost everything in the release was previously classified secret or top secret. The CIA also released several items already available on its Web site or in public testimony, which I omitted.The documents are presented here in no particular order but I grouped material near the top related to warnings about the activities of Khalid Al Mihdhar, one of the hijackers, and material related to 1998 efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden together in roughly chronological order.You are welcome to report from these documents, but you must credit Intelwire.com. If you wish to break out a specific document for a major media outlet, contact me . Smaller outlets, please feel free to grab excerpts using screencaps, but kindly remember to add the credit.

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