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In the weeks following the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by United States forces, U.S. Intelligence Community analysts sifted through the recovered digital and hard copy materials in search of clues that would reveal ongoing al-Qa`ida plots, identities and locations of al-Qa`ida personnel, and other information of immediate importance.

On May 20, 2015, the ODNI released a sizeable tranche of documents recovered from the compound used to hide Osama bin Laden. On March 1, 2016, the ODNI released a second tranche of material gleaned from the Abbottabad raid. On January 19, 2017, the ODNI released the final tranche of documents. These releases, which followed a rigorous interagency review, align with the President’s call for increased transparency–consistent with national security prerogatives–and the 2014 Intelligence Authorization Act, which required the ODNI to conduct a review of the documents for release.

Editor's note: After the raid on Abbottabad, an interagency task force worked 24/7 to identify which of the recovered materials presented intelligence value. Once the task force pinpointed which materials were most useful to the Intelligence Community, they produced intelligence cables that were shared throughout the IC. The underpinning materials—hundreds of documents—that informed those cables were then reviewed for declassification and public release. All interagency declassification reviews of the Abbottabad materials were scoped specifically to this distilled set of materials—those with intelligence value—as opposed to the entire trove recovered at Abbottabad. Career intelligence professionals executed this interagency effort, with CIA as Executive Agent. On November 1, 2017, CIA released nearly 470,000 files that included draft versions of items previously reviewed as well as other correspondence and materials outside the scope of previous declassification reviews.

Declassified Material - November 01, 2017

Declassified Material - January 19, 2017 (49 items)

Declassified Material - March 1, 2016 (113 items)

Declassified Material - May 20, 2015 (103 items)

Publicly Available U.S. Government Documents (75 items)

English Language Books (39 items)

Material Published by Violent Extremists & Terror Groups (35 items)

Materials Regarding France (19 items)

Media Articles (33 items)

Other Religious Documents (11 items)

Think Tank & Other Studies (40 items)

“Al-Qaeda’s Online Media Strategies: From Abu Reuter to Irhabi 007” by Hanna Rogan (2007)
Book Review (origin unknown) of Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror by Robert Cassidy
Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, “African Jihad: Al-Qaeda in Darfur”
Carnegie Papers, “Pakistan: The Myth of an Islamist Peril” by Frederic Grare (2006)
Carnegie Papers, “Islam, Militarism, and the 2007-2008 Elections in Pakistan” by Frederic Grare (2006)
Carnegie Papers, “Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations in the Post-9/11 Era” by Frederic Grare (2006)
Chatham House, “Al-Qaeda Five Years On” by Maha Azzam (Sept 2006)
Chatham House, “Security, Terrorism and the UK” (July 2005)
“Combating a Modern Hydra: Al-Qaeda and the Global War on Terror,” by Sean Kalic, Combat Studies Institute Press, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (2005)
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, “Al-Qaeda Secedes from Iraq: Implications for Bleedout and U.S. Policy”
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, Harmony and Disharmony
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, Militant Ideology Atlas
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, Stealing Al-Qaeda’s Playbook
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, Sentinel (Feb 2009)
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, Harmony Program documents (AFGP 2002-000078, AFGP 2002- 000080, AFGP 2002-000103, AFGP 2002-000112, AFGP 2002-003251, AFGP 2002-600002, AFGP 2002-600045, AFGP 2002-600048, AFGP 2002-600053, AFGP 2002-600080, AFGP 2002-600113, AFGP 2002-600157, AFGP 2002-600321, AFGP 2002-601346, AFGP 2002-601402, AFGP 2002-601693, AFGP 2002-602181, AFGP 2002-602187, AFGP 2002-603856, AFGP 2002-801138, AFGP 2002-901188)
Global Terror Alert, “The State of the Sunni Insurgency in Iraq” (2006)
Global Terror Alert (March 2006 and February 2007 issues)
Heritage Foundation, “The Evolving Al-Qaeda Threat” by James Phillips (17 March 2006)
Hudson Institute, “Jihad Ideology in Light of Contemporary Fatwas” by Shmuel Bar (August 2006)
IntelCenter, “Al-Qaeda Targeting Guidance” (1 April 2004)
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), In-Depth, “Guns Out of Control: The Continuing Threat of Small Arms” (May 2006)
International Crisis Group, “Islam and Identity in Germany” (14 March 2007)
Jamestown Foundation, Report on Turkish Arms Industry (June 2008)
Jamestown Foundation, Terrorism Focus (issues from 8 Jan 2008, 1 July 2008, 16 July 2008, 23 July 2008, 5 Aug 2008, 2 Sept 2008, 10 Sept 2008, 18 Sept 2008, 24 Sept 2008, 1 Oct 2008, 22 Oct 2008, 30 Oct 2008, 5 Nov 2008, 21 Jan 2009, 19 Feb 2009, 25 Feb 2009)
Jamestown Foundation, Terrorism Monitor (issues from 2 Nov 2006, 2 Feb 2007, 7 March 2008, 24 March 2008, 3 Apr 2008, 17 Apr 2008, 1 May 2008, 15 May 2008, 29 May 2008, 12 June 2008, 26 June 2008, 10 July 2008, 25 July 2008, 29 July 2008, 11 Aug 2008, 4 Sept 2008, 22 Sept 2008, 24 Oct 2008, 9 Jan 2009, 10 Feb 2009, 3 March 2009, 7 March 2009, 13 March 2009, 14 Jan 2010, 11 March 2010, 19 March 2010)
JihadUnspun.com content (23 Oct 2006)
JihadMonitor.org, “Considerations on the first (frustrated) action of ‘Hezbollah in Venezuela’,” by Manuel R. Torres (2 Nov 2006)
The Lipman Report, “Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Grassroots Terrorism: The Connection” (15 Nov 2009)
Transparency International, “Major Findings of the Pakistan National Corruption Perception Survey” (11 Aug 2006)
NEFA Backgrounder on Feiz Muhammad (2010)
NEFA Foundation (issues from 16 Aug 2009, 18 Nov 2009, 21 Nov 2009, 26 Nov 2009, 6 Dec 2009, 24 Dec 2009, 31 Dec 2009, 16 Jan 2010, 20 Jan 2010, 23 Jan 2010, 24 Jan 2010, 28 Jan 2010, 2 Feb 2010, 8 Feb 2010, 17 Feb 2010, 20 Feb 2010, 22 Feb 2010, 23 Feb 2010, 26 Feb 2010, 27 Feb 2010, 28 Feb 2010, 3 March 2010, 7 March 2010, 19 March 2010)
NEFA Foundation – Prominent Jihad Media Organizations in Central Asia 2009
NEFA Foundation product on Sgt. Hasan Akbar (Jan 2010)
International Crisis Group, “Oil for Soil: Toward a Grand Bargain on Iraq and the Kurds” (2008)
Program for the Study of International Organizations (PSIO), “Hizb ut-Tahrir: The Next Al- Qaeda, Really?” by Jean-Francois Mayer (2004)
RAND, Beyond Al-Qaeda (Parts 1 and 2)
RAND, Combating Al-Qaeda and the Militant Islamic Threat by Bruce Hoffman
RAND, Rethinking Counterinsurgency (2008)
RAND, Al-Qaeda: Trends in Terrorism and Future Potentialities by Bruce Hoffman (2003)
SITE Institute Report (27 July 2006)

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Software & Technical Manuals (30 items)

Other Miscellaneous Documents (14 items)

Documents Probably Used by Other Compound Residents (10 items)

An interagency Intelligence Community taskforce, under the auspices of the White House and with the agreement of the DNI, reviewed all documents from Abbottabad. As of January 19, 2017, all documents whose publication would not jeopardize ongoing operations against al-Qa‘ida or their affiliates have been released.

This list contains U.S. person information that is being released in accordance with the Fiscal Year 2014 Intelligence Authorization Act (section 309) requirement that the Director of National Intelligence conduct a declassification review of certain items collected during the mission that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011, and make publicly available any information declassified as a result of such review.

All publications are unclassified and available commercially or in the public domain. The U.S. Intelligence Community does not endorse any of the publications appearing on this list.

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