Congressional Research Service

The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)—Responsibilities and Potential Congressional Concerns

The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) was established in 2004 to ensure that information from any source about potential terrorist acts against the U.S. could be made available to analysts and that appropriate responses could be planned. Investigations of the 9/11 attacks had demonstrated that information possessed by different agencies had not been shared and thus that disparate indications of the looming threat had not been connected and warning had not been provided. As a component of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the NCTC is composed of analysts with backgrounds in many government agencies and has access to various agency databases.

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International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran

IAEA Report Alleging Iran’s Intention to Create a Nuclear Warhead

In order to confirm, as required by the Safeguards Agreement, that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities, the Agency needs to have confidence in the absence of possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme. Previous reports by the Director General have detailed the outstanding issues and the actions required of Iran,12 including, inter alia, that Iran implement the Additional Protocol and provide the Agency with the information and access necessary to: resolve questions related to the alleged studies; clarify the circumstances of the acquisition of the uranium metal document; clarify procurement and R&D activities of military related institutes and companies that could be nuclear related; and clarify the production of nuclear related equipment and components by companies belonging to the defence industries.

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Threats and Takedown Notices

U.S. Secret Service Requests Removal of Documents from Public Intelligence

To whom it may concern,

Please take this e-mail as an official request to remove the above listed posting as well as the five .pdf files and the zip file containing the five separate files. These items are marked as law enforcement sensitive and were not intended for non LEO consumption. The original source of your information did not have the authority to post these documents on a publicly available server and removed access to them immediately after being requested to do so. Please respond to this e-mail as to your intentions in this matter. I appreciate your assistance.

Brian Russell
USSS-NCFI

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New York

NYPD Brief: Attack on Police and ISI Offices in Lahore, Pakistan, May 27, 2009

Summary
•On 5/27/09 at least four gunmen opened fire and set off of a car bomb between police and intelligence buildings in Lahore, Pakistan.
•Latest reports indicate that at least 23 people are dead, and hundreds wounded.
•Two suspects were taken into custody, but were later released.
•There have been no claims of responsibility, but the attack is assessed to be a response to the Pakistani army’s offensive in the Swat Valley.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBI (U//FOUO) White Supremacist Extremist Violence Possibly Decreases

(U) Based on data from FBI and open source reporting, the FBI assesses with medium confidence that acts of violence by White Supremacist Extremists (WSEs) slightly decreased between 1 January 2007 and 31 October 2009. As the majority of incidents involved racist skinheads, the FBI assesses with high confidence this element is the most violent in the WSE movement. Much of the violence has been against ethnic, religious, government, and law enforcement targets in furtherance of racial views, but violence has also occurred against other WSEse or non-WSE whites.

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