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Quarterly Report to the Intelligence Oversight Board 
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PURPOSE: (U//!fOOO)To forward additional information to the NSA Inspector General and the 
NSA General Counsel for the second quarter ofFY2003 (1 January2003 to 31 March2003) on 
SIGINT Directorate compliance with E.O. 12333 and related directives. 
BACKGROUND: (SfiSf) Due to personnel changes, the counterterrorism desk failed to submi…

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FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYL.ANO 20755-6000 
8 July 2003 
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHAIRMAN, INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT BOARD 
THRU: Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Intelligence Oversight) 
SUBJECT: 
(U/~OUO) Report to the Intelligence Oversight Board on NSA 
Activities - INFORMATION MEMORANDUM 
(U//FOUO) Except as previously reported to you or the President, or 
otherwise stated in the enclosure, we have no reason to believe that any intelligence 
activities of the National Security Agency during the quarter ending 31 March 2003, . 
were unlawful or contrary to Executive Order or Presiden…

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1. (U) INSPECTOR GENERAL ACTIVITIES 
a. ~C//51) During this quarter, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviewed 
various intelligence activities of the National Security Agency /Central Security 
Service (NSA/CSS) to determine whether they were conducted in accordance with 
applicable statutes, Executive Orders, Attorney General procedures, and DoD and 
internal directives. With few exceptions, the issues presented were routine and 
indicated that the operating elements understand the restrictions on NSA/CSS 
activities. 
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2. (U) ~ENERAL COUNSEL ACTIVITIES 
(C//~l) The NSA Office of General Counsel (OGC) reviewed various intelligence 
activities of the NSA/CSS to determine whether they were conducted in accordance 
with applicable statutes, Executive Orders, Attorney General procedures, and DoD 
and internal directives. The OGC advised Agency elements on a number of 
questions, including the collection and dissemination of communications of or 
concerning U.S. persons; the reporting of possible violations of federal criminal law 
contained in SIGINT product; the testing of ele…

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responsible oversight officials and corrective actions were taken. All 
unauthorized traffic collected has been destroyed. 
b. (U//FOUO) Dissemination of U.S. Identities 
(1) (U) Intentional 
\'//Sf) In accordance with section 7 of USSID 18,I 
JU.S. identities were 
disseminated. The following table shows the justification ·~d the number of 
instances of dissemination: In the "Unmasked" column, th~ U.S. identity was 
revealed in a serialized end product; in the "User Requested~' column, a U.S. 
identity was released to a user at the user's request. 
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were cancelled because they contained information derived from U.S. person 
communications. 
(3) (U) Raw Traffic Dissemination Outside the SIGINT 
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some cases, the information was later released in published produqt and thus 
was evaluated for foreign intelligence information and minimization 
purposes; however, not all materials wer…