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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY 
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7 March 2002 
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHAIRlVIAN, INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT BOARD 
THRU: Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Intelligence Oversight) 
SUBJECT: (U) Report to the Intelligence Oversight Board on NSA Activities ~ 
INFORMATION MEMORANDUM 
(U) Except as previously reported to you 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 31December20…

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1. (U) INSPECTOR GENERAL ACTIVITIES 
a. (U / /FOUO) During this quarter, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviewed 
various reports of inadvertent violations of the Attorney General (AG) procedures, 
as well as Department of Defense (DoD) and internal directives, to determine if 
corrective action was appropriate. 
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b. (S//SI) An OIG team conducted an inspe<:,.t.i.on-ofthe Sign_~Is ·Inee.mgence 
Directorate (SID)I 
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3. (U) SIGINT ACTIVITIES 
a. (a//SI) Collection Against U.S. Persons 
(1) {U) Intentional 
(S// SI) During ~his 1uarter, the DlRNSA granted approval for consensual 
collection agains 
p~r$.<?.ns; DIRNSA-approved consensual collection 
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U.S .. p~:r:~~:ms was ... rotltinely)~rminated this quarter. 
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(S//Sl) The Atto~eral g~~ted .~iuthority: t:Q::¢.:<:>.!1ect Jhe 
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(S//Sl) During the fourt~.q~~~rter of 2omJ-lsIGINT products were canceled 
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fundamental legal principles underlying the SID mission. At the briefing, each 
individual is given handouts containing a list of all the legal documents that must be 
read on a yearly basis, procedures for handling a USSID-18 violation, and points of 
contact for specific oversight issues in the SID Oversight and Compliance Office. 
The first briefing was presented on 6 September; after a 2-month hiatus related to 
the September 2001 terrorist attacks, briefings resumed on 6 November. The go'al is 
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NSA/CSS OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SUMMARY REPORT 
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7 January 2002 
I. (U} INTRODUCTION 
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(g/151) The Chief, O~ersight and.,,C.:'o~plfance (O~«;J) Office'J1?tified the OIG by 
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