Commission Sensitive

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

Event: Cliff Landsman, former Assistant Commissioner for Intel

Date: Monday, October 27, 2003
Special Access Issues: [none]
Prepared by: Janice Kephart-Roberts on October 27, 2003
Team Number: 5 (Border Security)
Contact information:
NOTES:

Structure.
Where within bureaucracy?

Who report to?

Who reported to intel hdqtrs?

Did you have your own agents dedicated to gathering intel at hdqtrs? In the field? Did
any entity at INS have its own intel? Who did they report to?

Commissioner.

How often did you brief the Commissioner?

Did you regularly brief her? Did you ever request to regularly brief the Commissioner?

Was there a difference in interest in intel among Meissner, Wyrsch and Rooney?

On what topics?

Ever on Al Qaida?

Do you recall a CIA briefing on radical fundamentalism in 1995?

Work with NSU.

Work with agency.

Who were your contacts with at the agency, entities you worked with closely.

Alien Affairs Unit at CIA.

 What do they do?

What was your role with them?

What type of information on Al Qaida were you receiving pre- 9/11?

What was the chatter you were hearing the summer of 2001?

Were you satisfied with the level of information you got from CIA?

Work with the FBI.

Who did you coordinate with at FBI?

Access to JTTF detailee material?

What type of information did you receive from them?

What information on Al Qaida?

Were you getting chatter material?

Work with DOS.

What was it?

What other entities did you work closely with at INS?

Describe your relationship with the Lookout Unit.

Hazmi and Midhar.

Familiarity prior to 9/11.

Immediately after 9/11.

What work were you tasked with?

Detainees.

What if anything in re to detainees, material witnesses, special registration (NSEERS)?

Thomas H. Kean
CHAIR
DHS INTERVIEW REQUEST NO. 6
Lee H. Hamilton
VICE C H A I R

Richard Ben-Veniste
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
(the "Commission") requests interviews with the following Department
Max Cleland of Homeland Security personnel during the weeks of October 13 or
Fred F. Fielding October 20, 2003. Please provide a proposed date, time, and location for
each interview no later than October 15, 2003, if possible. The
Jamie S. Gorelick anticipated length of each of these interviews is three hours.
Slade Gorton
1. Dan Molario
John Lehman

Timothy J. Roemer 2. Cliff Landsman

James R. Thompson
The Commission anticipates that these interviews may involve the
discussion of classified information. The Commission reserves the right
Philip D. Zelikow
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
to re-interview these individuals based on the results of the requested
interviews and the needs of the Commission.

October 10, 2003 Daniel Marcus

General Counsel

TEL (202) 331-4060

FAX (202) 296-5545
www. 9-11 commission.gov
 oanne Accolla
From: sdunne@9-11commission.gov
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 4:21 PM
To: Daniel.Brown@dhs.gov
Cc: matthew.zabel@usdoj.gov; dmarcus@9-11 commission.gov; team5@9-11 commission.gov;
dcampagna@9-11 commission.gov
Subject: DHS interview request no. 6

DHS interview
request no 6.doc...
Dan: Attached as a Word document is DHS interview request no. 6. Please call
Janice Kephart-Roberts at 202-401-1705 with any questions about this request
and to arrange for these interviews. Feel free to call Dan Marcus or me as
well if any issues arise. Thanks. Steve