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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY 
CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE 
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE MARYLAND 20755-6000 
16 May 2013 
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHAIRMAN, INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT BOARD 
THRU : Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Intelligence Oversight) 
SUBJECT: (U//FOUO' Report to the Intelligence Oversight Board on NSA Activities -
lNFORMATION MEMORANDUM 
(U//fOUO) Except as previously reported to you or the President or otherwise stated in the 
enclosure, we bave no reason to believe that intelligence activities of the National Security Agency during 
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(U) REPORT TO THE INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT BOARD ON NSA ACTIVITIES 
FIRST QUARTER CY2013 
(U//FOUO) Pursuant to Executive Order 12333 (E.O. 12333), as amended, National 
Security Directi ve No. 42, and other legal and policy directives, the National Security Agency 
(NSA/Agency) conducts signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) activities 
on behalf of the US. government. NSA's SIGINT and IA operations, as well as activities in 
support of those operations, might result in the acquisition of non-public information about or 
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system errors. In lig ht of the scope and scale ofNSA's E.O. 12333 SIGINT operati~-~~~ .. 1----
e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and other "selectors" were tasked for E.O. 12333 SIGINT 
Tiirl'l'}"· ..................... ~.llection during the repotiing period), the overall error rate was extremely low. 
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(U//flotJO) The vast majority ofE.O. 12333 incidents during the repo1iing per…

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with the FISC concerning incidents of non-comp.l:i.~f\'6.e witJ1,..~otho ri zations issued to NSA 
pursuant to FISA, including incidents of n9J'.!:Se(fhiplianq~,..\.~i'th NSA's Court-approved FISA 
minimization procedures. There wery.f .... ::::.+focidents 9.f~cfn- compliance with NSA internal 
control proced~ire
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the non-compliant data was marked for purging, and no reporting occurred . 
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teclmical personnel destroyed the call detail records used in the migration of records that 
had been retained past the five-year limit. 
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FAA §702 data was erroneous! 
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for, a selector deein e.d to be no longer of interest. 
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