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==Content== The memo states that its purpose is to:<ref>{{cite web | title=Special Report: A Review of the FBI's Handling of Intelligence Information Related to the September 11 Attacks, Appendix 2 | website=Office of Inspector General | url=https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/s0606/app2.htm | access-date=March 30, 2025}}</ref> <blockquote>Advise the Bureau and New York of the possibility of a coordinated effort by [[Osama bin Laden]] to send students to the United States to attend civil aviation universities and colleges. Phoenix has observed an inordinate number of individuals of investigative interest who are attending or who have attended civil aviation universities and colleges in the State of Arizona.</blockquote> The recommendations outlined by Williams were ignored or put aside because of other concerns. At least one dozen FBI officials, including [[John P. O'Neill]], saw the memo. Still, it was never passed to acting director [[Thomas J. Pickard]], his successor [[Robert Mueller]], or the [[Central Intelligence Agency]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/12/fbi-phoenix-memo/|title=FBI's 'Phoenix' memo unmasked|last=Behar|first=Richard|date=22 May 2002|work=Fortune|publisher= [[CNN]] |accessdate=11 September 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125235247/http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/12/fbi-phoenix-memo/|archivedate=25 November 2011}}</ref> In addition, the memo's existence was not made known to President [[George W. Bush]] and his senior national security staff until May 2002. Mueller told the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] in an emotional hearing in May 2002 that the FBI's failure to act on the memo resulted from deficits in its analytical capabilities.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/21/us/traces-of-terror-the-fbi-memo-ashcroft-learned-of-agent-s-alert-just-after-9-11.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|title=Traces of Terror: The F.B.I. Memo; Ashcroft Learned of Agency's Alert Just After 9/11|last=Johnston|first=David|author2=Don van Natta, Jr.|date=21 May 2002|work=New York Times|accessdate=11 September 2013}}</ref>
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