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Global War on Terrorism (Various Joint Staff Documents)

Iraq

Documents from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) concerning Operation Iraqi Freedom:

• Document Grouping I
  • Index
  • Document Release
• Document Grouping II
  • Index
  • Document Release
• Document Grouping III
  • Index
  • Document Release (released JAN 2009)(12 MB)


• Public Affairs Guidance U.S. Action Against Iraq (PDF | 145 KB)
• Principals Meeting, 13 August 2002
• Delivery pages for Goals, Objectives, Strategy paper on Iraq, August 29, 2002
• Senator Dianne Feinstein Letter to Secretary Rumsfeld, Re: Unsecured Iraqi Munitions Sites, September 5, 2003
• Planning for the Iraqi Petroleum Infrastructure, 06 FEB 2003
• Cultural Resource Protection and Heritage Preservation
• Office of Near East and South Asia Affairs/Office of the Secretary of Defense, Briefing, "A Provisional Government for Iraq," February 14, 2003, 7:28pm
• Testimony of Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, February 11, 2003, "Post-War Planning."
• Operation Iraqi Freedom Strategic Lessons Learned Report, March 31, 2004
• Iraqi Freedom Fund (FY2003-FY2006)
• Questions to be discussed with Secretary of Defense, Military Commanders, and United States Ambassador to Iraq," October 18, 2006
• Embedding Media in U.S. Military Units during Operations
• Office of Near East and South Asia Affairs Briefing, 'Iraqi Opposition Strategy,' January 30, 2003. (released JUN 2009)
• OSD Notional Interim Authority Action Plan, May 12, 2003
• Iraqi Interim Authority Talking Points
• Read Ahead for Meeting on IIA, May 8, 2003
• Memorandum for Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Policy), Subject: Notional Sequencing of Elections, June 2003 - November 2004
• Guidance for the Implementation of De-Ba'athification Policy, May 23, 2003
• USD(P) Feith Memo to Secretary Rumsfeld, President's Speech on Iraq, 22 May 2004 (PDF | 40 MB)

Office of Strategic Influence

• OSI Release doc 1 (PDF | 665 KB)
• OSI Release doc 2 (PDF | 3 MB)

OSD (Policy) Office of Special Plans

• Candidate Approval Position Adjustment, September 13 2002 -Memo from Special Assistant to Secy for White House Liaison (PDF | 92 KB)
• Doc #2 - October 18, 2002, Memo, Subject: "Establishment of the SES General Position of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Special Plans & Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs) and Noncareer Reassignment of William J. Luti
• Doc #3: Job Description for Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Special Plans and Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs)
• Doc #4: July 14, 2003, Memo from the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ISA), Subject: "Office Redesignations
• DoD Answers to The New Yorker Magazine

OSD Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group

• Request for Detail of Intelligence Analyst (PDF | 67 KB)
• Request for Support - 15 February, 2002 (PDF | 58 KB)
• Fact Sheet on So-Called Intel Cell (or Policy Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group, PCTEG) 3 February 2004 (PDF | 46 KB)
• Letters from USD(P) Douglas Feith to Senator John Warner and Representative Jane Harman concerning the Policy Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group, June 21, 2003
• Memo from USD-P Douglas Feith to Director, DIA, dated Feb 2, 2002, "Request for Support"

OTHER INFORMATION RESOURCES

• Documents released in litigation by the U.S. Central Command pertaining to the killing of civilians by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan can be found in the U.S. Central Command's electronic reading room. See folders labeled "CERP, ACLU Litigation Release, 25 Jul 09 (1) and (2)".

Note: The DoD Inspector General (IG) "Review of the Pre-Iraqi War Activities of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy" is available on the DoD IG FOIA website at: http://www.dodig.osd.mil/fo/Foia/pre-iraqi.htm

Miscellaneous

• Strategic Guidance for the Campaign Against Terrorism October 3, 2001 (PDF | 500 KB)
• Secretary Rumsfeld's Records Related to Corporal Patrick D. Tillman, September 11, 2001 through April 1, 2006 (PDF | 1 MB)
• Memo from Secretary Wolfowitz to Secretary Rumsfeld titled Presidential Speech - May 23, 2004 (PDF | 181 KB)

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