E. Information Shared Compared to the Intelligence Community's Master Inspection List
( ) A comparison of the 67 site packages against the IC MIL's three priority rankings show that the United States Government shared site packages on:
- 20 of the 37 IC MIL high priority sites;
- 25 of the 68 IC MIL medium priority sites; and
- 13 of the 54 IC MIL low priority sites.
- Nine site packages provided to the UN on Iraqi underground facilities were late additions to the IC MIL and as a result not given a priority designation.
( ) According to United States Government officials, the United States Government shared information with the UN by three means:
- the UN request for site information - the "pull" of information (13 site packages, of which five were briefed to the UN by the United States Government, and 60 line drawing packages);
- the IC MIL site packages - the "push" of information (67 total sites); and
- the oral and written exchange of information during discussions between United States Government and UN officials, much of which preceded the establishment of UNMOVIC in 2002. (CIA officials gave the Committee staff a list of dates when materials were briefed to the UN but did not provide the necessary documentation to allow the staff to verify the substance of the information exchanged by this means.)
(U) Information on the IC MIL sites was shared with the UN as follows:
| IC MIL Priority (# sites) |
IC MIL Briefing |
UN Requested |
Information Exchange |
No Sharing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High (37) | 20 | 6 | 7 | 4 |
| Med. (68) | 25 | 10 | 16 | 17 |
| Low (54) | 13 | 13 | 5 | 23 |
| Underground Facilities (9) | 9 |
(Note: the sum of priority sites is 159 not 148 due to the multiple listing of some sites by type of WMD site.)
( )
Of the 44 sites on the 148-site IC MIL where the IC states no information was
shared with the UN - four high, 17 medium, and 23 low priority top suspect sites - the IC
provided a number of explanations as to why an exchange did not occur. In a May 8,
2003, chart prepared in response to Senator Levin's information requests, the following
explanations were provided by the CIA as to why information was not shared with the
UN on these 44 priority sites:
| # of Priority Sites | |||||
| High | Med. | Low | Total | Reason for not sharing information | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 8 | 7 = | 17 |
"Historical site68 well known to UNMOVIC. No new actionable intelligence"/ "No new information to brief." |
|
| 0 | 0 | 4 = | 4 | "Historical site, the present use of this facility is unknown." | |
| 1 | 2 | 0 = | 3 |
"New site disclosed by Iraq in 7 December CAFCD [Currently Accurate, Full and Complete Declaration]" |
|
| 0 | 0 | 3 = | 3 | "Site previously briefed. No new actionable intelligence." | |
| 0 | 0 | 2 = | 2 | "No new, actionable intelligence." | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 = | 1 |
"Not briefed due to cultural sensitivities." [This site is a graveyard and the CIA felt the UN inspectors would not want to exhume corpses.] |
|
| 0 | 1 | 0 = | 1 | "Unlocated facility within large presidential compound." | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 = | 1 | "Location not yet identified." | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 = | 1 |
"IAEA has independent information on site. No new actionable intelligence." |
|
| 0 | 1 | 0 = | 1 | "UNMOVIC inspected this site before we were able to brief." | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 = | 1 | "No activity noted since 2000." | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 = | 1 | "Historical supervisory role for aircraft used in early UAV development." | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 = | 1 | [No explanation was provided by the CIA on this site.] | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 = | 1 | "Site of interest, but no new, actionable intelligence." | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 = | 1 |
"Full site package on , now occupying this site, provided to UNMOVIC." |
|
| 0 | 0 | 1 = | 1 |
"Possible chemical site of unknown purpose. Possibly visited by IAEA in Dec 02." |
|
| 0 | 0 | 1 = | 1 | "This is a mining facility, no new actionable intelligence." | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 = | 1 | "Subset of High Explosive (HE) Test Facility." | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 = | 1 | "Historical interest; Test stand is derelict." | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 = | 1 |
"Purported Garrison for al Fat'h missile unit. No current evidence of missiles." |
|
| 4 | 17 | 23 = | 44 total sites | ||
footnotes
68 Site revisited by UNMOVIC many times over the years.
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