CIA Reading Room 06312744: IGNATIUS COLUMN THIS WEEKEND ON DOCUMENTS FROM UBL RAID

Approved for Release: 2019/03/20 C06312744 Cynthia L Rapp From: Sent: To: Subject: Cynthia L Rapp Thursday. March 15, 2012 4:22 PM Draft RE:. Ignatius column this weekend on documents from UBL raid I was not aware; I hope CTC was. From: Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:20 PM To: Media Subject: FW: Ignatius column this weekend on documents from UBL raid Did we know this effort was underway? We probably need to inform CTC. From: Vietor, Tommy fmailt Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2 iz '1.1U PM To: Wilson, Douglas HON OSD PA; Little, George CIV OSD PA; 'Kirby, John F CAPT OSD PA'; Hammer, Michael A; nulandvj(astate.gov; tonerm@state.govi (tonermstate.gov); Shawn S Turner; Cynthia L Rapp; Cc: Hayden, Caitlin; Bradsher, Tanya; PeIton, Erin Subject: Ignatius column this weekend on documents from UBL raid Team, As you probably know, our CT folks have been working for months with the IC to declassify and analyze documents taken from UBL's compound. They have organized some of the documents thematically for use with press where they could provide a strategic communications benefit. Ultimately, the plan is for all the documents to be hosted by an academic institution for journalists/researchers to study. The first such collection is called "AI-Qaida's Weaknesses, Internal Disputes, and Bin Ladin's Views". That material was exclusively reviewed this week by David Ignatius. He has secured essentially half of the Washington Post's Sunday editorial page for a 1,200 word column on the subject, a