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War Game
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Attribution
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Description
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CIA / National Reconnaissance Office "plane into building"
exercise
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Associated Press, August 21, 2002 |
simulation of a plane crash into the NRO headquarters (near Dulles Airport,
Virginia) - this was not a "terrorism" exercise but it did result
in the evacuation of most NRO employees just as the "real" 9/11
was taking place |
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Vigilant Guardian
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Aviation Week & Space Technology, June 3, 2002, Newhouse News, others
(these articles are reproduced below) |
The publicly available mass media articles about these exercises state
that they were similar enough to the actual events that top NORAD personnel
were confused, not sure if 9/11 was "part of the drill" or a real
world event. |
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Vigilant Warrior
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Richard Clark, "Against All Enemies" (March 2004) |
referenced by Richard Clark, but other information is not publicly available.
Vigilant Guardian and Vigilant Warrior were probably related exercises (defender
and attacker). |
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Northern Vigilance
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Toronto Star, December 9, 2001 |
"Operation Northern Vigilance, planned months in advance, involves
deploying fighter jets to locations in Alaska and northern Canada."
This ensured that there would be fewer fighter planes available to protect
the East Coast on 9/11. Simulated information was fed into radar screens
- is this what confused the air defenses that morning? |
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Northern Guardian
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Toronto Star, December 9, 2001 |
only mention was in the early edition of this article, no details publicly
available (probably related to Northern Vigilance) |
Tripod II
US Department of Justice and City of New York |
Rudolph Giuliani's testimony to the 9/11 Commission, May 2004 |
biowar exercise in New York City scheduled for September 12, 2001 |
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