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PURPOSE: (U//FOU~ To forward to the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) of the 
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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY 
CENTRAL. SECURITY SERVICE 
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 2075~000 
14 December 2005 
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 - 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 Securi…

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1. (U) INSPECTOR GENERAL ACTIVITIES 
a. (C/ISI) 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 (EOs), Attorney General (AG) procedures, and 
Department of Defense (DoD) and internal directives. With few exceptions, the 
issues presented were routine and indicated that the operating elements understand 
the restrictions on …

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justification....-8.nd the number of instances of dissemination. In the "Unmasked by 
Analyst" cplumn, the U.S. identity was revealed in a serialized end product; in the 
"Unmasked at User Request" column, a U.S. identity was released to a user at the 
user's r¢quest. 
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minimization procedures and as described to the FISC.bjTNSAi:o,the relevant 
applications. In the future, such incidents that are handled properly .. under. .. FISA 
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