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Prior to. September 11, 2001, the FBI produced very few raw intelligence reports In FY 2003, we produced and disseminated 2,425 Intelligence Information Reports containing raw intelligence derived from FBI investigations and intelligence collection The majority contained intelligence related to international terrorism, the next greatest number contained foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information; and the remainder concerned criminal activities and cyber crime These llRs were disseminated to a wide customer set in FBI field offices, the Intellhgence Community, Defense Community, other federal law enforcement agencies, and U.S. policy entities In addition to these individual reports, the FB! developed and issued in January 2003. a classified comprehensive assessment of the terrorist threat to the U.S. This assessment focuses on the threats that the FBi sees developing over the next two years, based on an analysis of information regarding the motivations, objectives, methods, and capabilities of existing terrorist groups and the potential for the emergence of new terrorist groups and threats. throughout the world. This threat assessment is used as a guide in the allocation of investigative resources, as a useful compilation of threat information for investigators and intelligence personnel within and without the FBI, and as a resource for decision-makers elsewhere in the government. A 2004 threat assessment is scheduled to be released in April 2004 We are preparing to produce, in the near future, the FB! Daily Report and the FBI National Report to provide daily intelligence briefings to personnel in the field and external customers. One will be praduced at the classified level and limited in distribution to upper-level field managers. The other will be unclassified and widely distributed to field office personne! and our partners in the law enforcement community A good example of our ability to exploit evidence for its intelligence value and share that intelligence is our use of the al-Qa'ida terrorism handbook. A terrorism handbook seized from an al-Qa'ida location overseas in the mid-1990's was declassified and released by DOJ shortly after the events of September 11, 2001. We determined that intelligence gleaned from the handbook could provide useful guidance about al-Qa‘ida’s interests and capabilities. Accordingly, we produced and disseminated a serles of intelligence products to share this intelligence with our personnel in the field and with our law enforcement partners. Nine Intelligence Bulletins were based in whole or in part on this intelligence. In addition, we used information derived from the al-Qa’ida Handbook to update our counterterronsm training, including the Intelligence Analyst Basic Course at the College of Analytical Studies, the Introduction to Counterterrorism Course at the National Academy, and sessions on Terrorism Indicators and Officer Safety in our SLATT training The unclassified version of the handbook is now maintained as a reference in the FBI Library and is accessible to all the students at the Academy. It also ts included in the reference manual CD-Rom distributed as part of SLATT training. Quality of Daily Counterterrorism Briefings One telling measure of our improved counterterrorism operations is the development of our capability to brief the daily terrorist threat information. The development of this capability reflects the maturing of our centralized Counterterrorism Program. Prior to September 11, 2004, the FBI lacked the capacity to provide a comprehensive daily terrorism briefing — to assemble the current threat information, to determine what Steps were being taken to address each threat, and to present a clear picture of each threat and the Bureau's response to that threat to the Director, senior managers, the Attorney General, and to others in the Administration who make operational and policy decisions. With a decentralized program in which investigations were run by individual field offices, the Bureau never had to develop this specialized skill. With the need for centralized management after September 11, 2001, however, it became an imperative. MISC DOC. #5 65 000000404