Mr. Faison's wry humor could not help cropping up in the top-secret report he completed in December 1945.

He produced a top-secret report of about 15 pages that, according to several officials who read it, described many of the detainees as having no meaningful ties to Al Qaeda.

He smiled for a second, wondering how many top-secret reports looked just as mundane.

He also drafted a volume of the now famous Pentagon Papers, a top-secret report on the government's decision-making in Vietnam.

At any rate, that was what a top-secret report said, written by a number of senior military intelligence personnel stationed in the colonies, all of whom had been dead now for decades.

Plug into the top-secret report being prepared by the House's Select Committee on Chinagate, headed by the tight-lipped Chris Cox.

He is the author of more than 100 secret and top-secret reports as well as scores of unclassified scientific papers.

"WE are facing an implacable enemy," the top-secret report to the president said.

Its top-secret report has been made to the intelligence committees of the House and Senate, which can make their own judgments.

The CISG had issued a 1220-page top-secret report on its conclusions, a document that offered some disturbing reading.