(SANITIZED)INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT WRITTEN BY PAUL PILLAR TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE U.S. INVADED IRAQ

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001302740
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2010
• Case Number: F-2010-00467
• Publication Date: March 10, 2006

March 10, 2006
Central Intelligence Agency
6cott A. Koch
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Washington, D.C. 20505
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I agree to pay up to $25 for costs associated with this noncommercial
assessment was previously requested by Mr. David Martin of CBS News. '
request a copy of the intelligence assessment written by Paul Pillar two
months before the U.S. invaded Iraq (see enclosed description). This
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Pursuant to the provisions of the Freedom of Information act, I respectfully
request.
Sincerely.
APPROVED FOR RELEASE^ DATE:
08-26-2010
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troops moved quickly to restore essential services and provide security they
would be viewed as occupiers. not liberators. In other words, it predicted exactly
what happened, but It was ignored by senior officials In the Bush administration
who insisted right up to the day of the invasion that American troops would be
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in this case I had been told that an unclassified version had been prepared by the
CIA in the summer of 2003 in anticipation of releasing it publicly- So I called the
CIA public affairs office and asked for a copy. The answer was that the
assessment had been prepared by an organization called the National Intelligence
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to file a Freedom of Information Act request. I filed an FOIA. Last month, I
received my.response. It said that since the assessment was written in. ,lanuacy of.
2UI 3 when the National Intelligence Counbiitwas stilt Under the CIA, my request
was being forwarded to the CIA. I was back where I started from. This week I
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requests, there's no telling when they'll get to mine. I'd call that a bureaucratic run
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named Paul Pillar, was writing an article for Foreign Affairs magazine in which he
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