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REPORT

TOGETHER WITH ADDITIONAL VIEWS

DECEMBER 2002

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REPORT

TOGETHER WITH ADDITIONAL VIEWS

DECEMBER 2002

Foreword

This is the declassified version of the Final Report of the Joint Inquiry that was

approved and filed with the House of Representatives and the Senate on December 20,

2002. With the exception of portions that were released to the public previously (e.g.,

the additional views of Members, the GAO Anthrax Report, etc.), this version has been

declassified by the Intelligence Community prior to its public release. That review was

for classification purposes only, and does not indicate Intelligence Community agreement

with the accuracy of this report, or concurrence with its factual findings or conclusions.

At appropriate points in the report, relevant information that developed after the

report was filed, or that has appeared in other public sources, has been inserted and is

denoted with an asterisk (*) and an accompanying footnote. Where necessary,

information that the Intelligence Community has identified as classified for national

security purposes has been deleted. Such deletions are indicated with brackets and a

strikethrough [ ]. In other portions of the report, alternative language that

the Intelligence Community has agreed is unclassified has been substituted for the

original report language which remains classified. Paragraphs that contain alternative

language, whether one word or several sentences, have been identified by brackets at the

beginning and end of the paragraph.

As a result of these changes to the text, the page numbers at the bottom of each

page do not match those of the original report. In order to preserve a record of the

mark where the corresponding pages begin and end in the original report.