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DCI Report draft 19 March 2004: FBI dissemination still 'spotty'; cultures clash

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Provenance

Source
The Central Intelligence Agency's 9/11 File (NSAEBB 381)
Date
2004-03-19
Page
SHA-256
836eb4766311ed0bc81de36148a12b570d16237ae0d90a0e7ce73d9c663a3074
Classification
declassified
Copyright
unknown

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB381/

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Observation

A March 2004 CIA draft history says FBI internal dissemination remained so weak that CIA officers still hand-delivered messages, and that FBI-CIA cultural clash impeded results.

Interpretation

Process support for H008. A CIA draft criticising the FBI is not an independent laboratory; it is one agency's after-action.

Source text

OBSERVATION (NSAEBB 381 quotation of CIA analytic report draft 2004-03-19, 'DCI Report: The Rise of UBL and Al-Qa'ida and the Intelligence Community Response'). Also: different organisational culture and goals of FBI and CIA 'sometimes get in the way of desired results' (p. 22). Afghan trial leaders judged unlikely to successfully attack a heavily guarded bin Laden; Massoud even if engaged had '< five percent' chance against the Taliban (p. 58). Many pages marked DIF — Denied in Full.

This is a 2004 CIA self-history, not a 2001 cable.

Hypothesis linkage

  • H008supportsseeded

    CIA draft: FBI dissemination still required hand delivery. Process failure language.

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