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MIsc Doc. #5 eter Evidence Exploitation Prior to September 11, 2001, the FBI and its partners lacked sufficient procedures for systematically exploiting paper documents, electronic media, and forensic evidence for its intelligence value. The National Media Exploitation Center was established in late 2001 to coordinate FBI, CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and National Security Agency (NSA) efforts to analyze and disseminate information gleaned from millions of pages of paper documents, electronic media, videotapes, audiotapes, and electronic equipment seized by the U.S military and Intelligence Cormmunity in Afghanistan and other foreign lands. These exploitation efforts have produced approximately 20,000 investigative leads, and forensic evidence such as fingerprints and DNA from documents and items recovered from suspects overseas have proven critical to a number of terrorist apprehensions and disruptions We have since established groups that specialize in the analysis of particular types of information On December 4, 2002, we created a Communications Exploitation Section to coordinate the analysis of documents, electronic media, and forensic evidence, as well as telephone and electronic communications. Soon thereafter, we established a specialized Document Exploitation Unit to exploit terrorist-related documentary material and to extract threat and intelligence information for the FBI and the Intelligence Community. In December 2003, we began preliminary operations at the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia. This new center, described in more detail on page 45, coordinates the efforts of multiple federal agencies to collect, analyze, forensically exploit, and disseminate intelligence related to improvised explosive devices. Fly-Away/Rapid Deployment Teams On June 6, 2002, the FBI created the Fly Away/Rapid Deployment Team Unit to manage and support the field office-based Rapid Deployment Teams and the newly created Headquarters- based "Fly Squads." These specialized teams and squads lend counterterrorism knowledge and expenence, language capabilities, and intelligence analysis support to FBI field offices and Legal Attachés. whenever they are needed. Since September 11, 2001, the Headquarters- based Fly Squads have been deployed on 38 different occasions, and have assisted in operations from Buffalo, New York, to the Gaza Strip. Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force On October 29, 2001, President Bush issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive No. 2, directing the Attorney General to create the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force (FTTTF) to keep foreign terrorists and their supporters out of the U.S. through entry denial, removal, or prosecution. FTTTF participants include the FBI, CIA, and the Departments of Homeland Security, Treasury, State, and Energy The FTTTF also maintains a close liaison with intelligence and law enforcement services in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other countries. On August 6, 2002, the Attorney General directed the consolidation of the FTTTF into the FBI. To fulfill its mission, the FTTTF implemented information sharing agreements among participating agencies to assist it in locating suspected terrorists and their supporters. It now has access to over 40 sources of data containing lists of known and suspected foreign terrorists. and their Supporters, including the FBI's Violent Gang and Terrorist Offenders File (VGTOF) and the State Department's TIPOFF watch list. 000000355 i eh eat Ree eA ata es by oor i aM ‘ ay