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Mike Hurley

From: Timothy J. Naftali [tjn3y@virginia.edu]

Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 3:44 PM
To: Tracy Shycoff
Cc: Mike Hurley
Subject: Last Invoice

Dear Tracy,

I know how busy you all are. I just wanted to be sure that the invoice I sent in April is making its way through the
system.

Thanks,

Tim.

c.c. Mike Hurley

Timothy J. Naftali
Director
Presidential Recordings Program
Kremlin Decisionmaking Project
Miller Center of Public Affairs
2201 Old Ivy Road
PO Box 400406
Charlottesville, VA 22904

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Mike Hurley

From: Scott Allan

Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:12 PM
To: Mike Hurley
Subject: marquittia

Mike:

Tomorrow is administrative professionals day - we should try to take MC out for a T3 lunch this week (thur?).
Any thoughts- the Indian place seemed to work well. -SHA

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From: Mike Hurley

Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 7:56 AM
To: Bonnie Jenkins
Cc: Warren Bass; Mike Hurley
Subject: Cohen's Comments on the pending attack in the U.S.

Bonnie:

We need to track down more re Cohen's comments about a pending WMD

attack in the US that he briefed Rumsfeld and Congress on.

I think Allen Holmes referred to this in his first interview.

Sounds important.

Were we expecting to be hit by aQ in the US around the time of the

transition???????

What do we know about this?????????

What did the incoming Bush administration do about this???????

Sounds like DOE was involved.

Mike

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Mike Hurley

From: Mike Hurley

Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 7:18 AM
To: Philip Zelikow Uf
Subject: RE: Insight magazine - US knew of Iranian act of war and did nothing

phlliP; Act tyns.

Yes, the article raises many interesting issues, the lack of intel sharing
among them. You get the impression that nsa collects stuff just for the
sake of collecting it. Why didn't Weinberger, Vessey, Powell, the President
see the intercept?

We didn't support the French in their 1983 retaliatory air strike. The French
weren't with us 20 years later (spring 2003) when we went into Iraq. History
has its ironies.

Mike
Original Message
From: Philip Zelikow
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 10:05 PM
To: Team 1; Team 3
Subject: FW: Insight magazine - US knew of Iranian act of war and did nothing

FYI, from Commissioner Lehman. The issues are interesting.

Philip

Original Message
From: John Lehman [mailto:JFL@jflpartners.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 2:54 PM
To: Phil Zelikow (E-mail)
Subject: FW: Insight magazine - US knew of Iranian act of war and did nothing

[John Lehman] Philip, This is the best account ever put together. Please pass on to the appropriate
teams.

Invitation to September 11

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

1/5/2004
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Mike Hurley

From: Philip Zelikow

Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 10:05 PM
To: Team 1; Team 3
Subject: FW: Insight magazine - US knew of Iranian act of war and did nothing

FYI, from Commissioner Lehman. The issues are interesting.

Philip

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Subject: FW: Insight magazine - US knew of Iranian act of war and did nothing

[John Lehman] Philip, This is the best account ever put together. Please pass on to the appropriate teams.

Invitation to September 11

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

The spider holes where terrorists and the nation-states who back them hide from
public view lie in the murkiest recesses of the murky world of intelligence. Rarely
do victims of terrorist attacks get to face their attacker, let alone know his
identity, especially when the attacker is a foreign government. Individual terrorists
such as Osama bin Laden or Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (aka "Carlos the Jackal") - who
openly boast of their evil deeds and thus can be tracked, targeted and eventually
taken out - are the exception, not the rule.

Or so said the conventional wisdom until a recent groundbreaking public trial in a

federal courtroom in Washington that blew the lid off the world's most elusive
terrorist sponsor: the Islamic Republic of Iran. That legal action was brought by
the families of the 241 U.S. Marines who were killed when terrorists crashed an
explosives-filled truck into their barracks near the Beirut airport on Oct. 23, 1983.
It raises disturbing questions concerning some of our most basic assumptions
about the war on terror.

New intelligence revealed at the March 2003 trial, and independently confirmed by
Insight with top military commanders and intelligence officials who had access to it
at the time, shows that the U.S. government knew beyond any reasonable doubt

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Whatever the reasons behind the refusal of the United States to join that French
retaliatory raid, there can be no doubt that the terrorists and their masters took
the U.S. failure to retaliate as a sign of weakness. Just five months later, Iran's
top agent in Beirut, Imad Mugniyeh, took CIA station chief William Buckley
hostage and hideously tortured him to death after extracting whatever information
he could. Since then, notes former Navy secretary Lehman, Osama bin Laden has
"directly credited the Marine bombing" and the lack of U.S. retaliation as
encouraging his jihadi movement to believe they could attack the United States
with impunity.

"The first shots in the war on terror we are in now were fired in Beirut in October
1983," says Geraghty. "The [Bush] administration is now doing exactly what we
need to be doing, attacking the enemies of freedom where they live instead of
letting them attack us in our home." But the failure to strike back against Iran and
Syria in 1983 was a dreadful mistake, he says. "This was an act of war. We knew
who the players were. And, because we didn't respond, we emboldened these
people to increase the violence."

Never again.

Kenneth R. Timmerman is a senior writer for Insight magazine.

For more, read "A Marine 'Peacekeeper's' Story."

A Marine 'Peacekeeper's1 Story

Posted Dec. 22, 2003

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

Steve Edward Russell, an E-5 sergeant with the 2nd Marine Division out of Camp Lejeune,
N.C., was in the guard post directly in front of the lobby when he heard a loud snap, "like a
two-by-four breaking" out by the main gate. When he turned to look, he saw a large Mercedes
water truck coming through the open gate, leaning heavily as it swerved around barriers.
Russell fiddled briefly with his sidearm, but realized it was not loaded - in keeping with the
rules of engagement for this "peacekeeping" mission. Then he saw that the truck was coming
straight for him.

He made eye contact with the driver - a man in his mid-twenties with curly hair and an olive
complexion, wearing what looked like a camouflage shirt - "and the only thing on my mind was
to warn." He began running, screaming to Marines who were milling around to get out, but got
one last look at the driver. He had "a sh--ty grin, a smile of success you might say." Russell
made it to the other side of the building when the truck exploded, wounding him severely.

As he gave his testimony to a courtroom packed with family members of victims, Russell

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