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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY 
CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE 
FORT GEORGE G . MEADE, M A R Y l..AN [') 2 0 75!;-6000 
24 December 2008 
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/JFOUO) Intelligence, counterintelligence, and intelligence-related activities 
that violate law, regulation, or policy substantiated during the quarter, as well as 
actions taken as a result of the violations. 
(U) Intelligence Activities 
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(b ) (3) - P . L . 86- 36 
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(T8//8tN REL TO USA, FVEY) Unintentiqnah:oh~ction against United States 
persons. This quarter, there wenOinsfa~ces in which Signals Intelligence (SIG INT) analysts 
inadvertently targeted or collected commu…

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lse1eetors were detaskj and collection was destroyed when 
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Anan~Jy~~ -~isunderstood the 
~rcction to treat the target as a U.S. person uni!] the target's state was venfiM·and.retas!<.<XI the 
selectors! 
I The .. selectorswercrngaindeta·sked"and interce,p(p:Urged::rrom'"NS(k> )(1) 
databases when the violation was identified I 
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(b)(3)-P.L. 86-36 
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lduringr<?.':1.~~ne oversight, an NSA database auditor found 
.. c=Jtelephone sel~.t.or. 
in the Unite.<:l .. States 
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lwhile searching forl 
J nformation on his foreign target_~ The query and resulting data 
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~8//S_INREL TO USA, FYEY) Durin an 
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(b)(3)-P.L. 86-36 found that a junior anal st queried 
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(~,'/KWREL TO USA, fiVt! l') During this quarter, 11c,IEHNT .. products .. weie .. cancel1ed .. b~~~~~~···w· .... <bH1) 
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they contained the identities of U.S. persons, organizations, or entities. In all instances, the 
reports were either not reissued or were reissued with proper minimization. 
analyst 
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found the same day, the 
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reviewed for U.S. person information, and the analysts have receivedreriiediat·tr.~~!1.~~::::~::::;;'(b)(1
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(U) The FISA Amendments Act (FAA) 
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lan"NSA"analys(IO.:rw.;~~4.~~cU~~:A;A;:d~t~;;tt;:::~;;;;;::::::::::::'Yb)(3)-P .L. 86-36 
reci ients who were not cleared for FAA. Tu~ .. analys!::i.nt:endeff'.fo::serid.the e-maill 
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(~)(3)-P. L. 86-36 
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;on::~~::::c::::::orized telephony collection and to prevent vio~~> 
NSA/CSS instituted a process desi ed to ive anal sts 
eater and faster insi t into a\tar" et·'~ 
location. 
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co ection occurr , 1t was purged om NSA databases. 
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