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NATIONAL. SECURITY AGENCY 
CENTRAL SECURITY SERVlCE: 
FOF~T GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755--6000 
6 July 2009 
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHAlRM.AN. INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT BOARD 
THRU: Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Intelligence Oversight) 
SUBJECT: (U/ffOLO) Report to the Intelligence Oversight Board on NSA Activities -
INFORMATl.ON fv1EMORANDUM 
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(l.J/,!f()l.J()T Except as prcviousJy reported to you or the President. or otherwise stated in 
the enclosure. we have no reason to believe that anv intelligence activities of the National Securitv…

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1, (UUFOUO) lntemgence, counterintemgence, and intelligence~related activities 
that violate law, regulation, or policy substantiated during the quarter, as w en as 
actions taken as a result of the violations. 
(lJ) lntemgence .Activities 
ff8//GL' RLL TO USA, rvr:v) Unintentional collection against United States (U.S.} 
persons. This quarter, there \VCrcO
instances .in which Signals intelligence (SlG1NT) analysts 
inadvertently targeted or collected com,1rnnications to, from, or about Li. S. persons vvh11e 
pursuing fr)reign intelligence tasking.…

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(U) Update to previous report 
fl'E5/'SW~JF) As reported last quarter. on l 5 January 2009~ the Department of Justice 
reported to the FISC that NSA had been using an "alert list'' to compare incoming BR 
Fl SA metadata against telephone numbers associated with counterterrorism (CT) targets 
1J1at NSA had tasked for SIGINT collection. The Agency had reported 10 the FISC that 
the alert list consisted of numbers for \vh.ich NSA had determined that a RAS existed that 
the numbers were related to a terrorist organization .. a<.;sociated with·l ...…

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