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This is a Clinton Presidential Library release from the NSC email collection, filed under Area 51 and covering September 1997 to February 2000. It contains withdrawal sheets for redacted emails along with released messages. Staff are told not to use the term Area 51, and draft press guidance says the President renewed an exemption for the Air Force operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from disclosure requirements under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. One message jokes about jury duty summonses sending staff to Area 51.
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38C66973.FIN Page 7 of 8 * Wednesday * Thursday * Holbrooke testifies before HIRC on U.N. peacekeeping in Congo; * The Vice Chiefs will testify in closed session on the military readiness budget before the HAC Defense Subcommittee; * Ann Witkowsky and State, DOD and JCS will brief SASC staff on CFE; * General Clark will testify on EUCOM budget before HASC; * General Kadish will testify on ballistic missile defense program before two HASC Subcommittees; * POTUS meeting with group of Democratic House Members on PNTR; * Lackey, Samore and Weiss(?) will meet with Levin's staff to discuss amendments to Russia/Iran legislation; * Tenet and DIA will testify in closed session on worldwide threats before the HASC; * Albright's hearing before the HIRC (rescheduled from last week). * Stanley Roth will testify before HIRC/Asia on Indonesia; * Hearing on Colombia before the HPSCI on Thursday - not clear yet if it will be open or closed. Witnesses will include State (Beers), DOD, ONDCP, USAID, and possibly CIA; Tuesday before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources (Mica). This was not our preferred venue to kick off - in large part because the key witnesses (Rand Beers, State; Brian Sheridan, DOD) will be in Colombia — but lack of cooperation from Southcom, who insisted on sending Wilhelm — and Mica's staffs threats of subpoenas —made it difficult for other agencies to refuse. So ONDCP (McCaffrey), Southcom (Wilhelm), DEA (Ledwith), State (Romero), and DOD (Salazar) are expected to testify;
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 86 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.