This 24 May 2010 NSA presentation describes the ways the agency uses botnets (“bot herding”): see the Der Spiegel article The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle, 17 January 2015.

This NSA memo summarises a talk given by Roger Dingledine of the Tor Project on 1 November 2007: see the Secret NSA documents show campaign against Tor encrypted network, 4 October 2013.

This internal document for NSA employees dated 1 March 2013 provides a guide for visiting facilities related with the OAKSTAR programme,which are largely based in the United States, save for the MONKEYROCKET source, which has information forwarded to the European Technical Center in Germany: see the Intercept article The NSA Worked To “track Down” Bitcoin […]

This NSA classification guide, dated 21 November 2011, covers signals intelligence material that as to be kept secret for more than the standard 60 years: see the Der Spiegel article The NSA in Germany: Snowden’s Documents Available for Download, 18 June 2014.

This undated selection of seven NSA slides highlights the activities the agency regards as its “core secrets”: see the Intercept article Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany, 10 October 2014.

This 2010 NSA classication guide outlines the sensitivity of aspects of the agency’s hacking activities: see the Intercept article Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany, 10 October 2010.

This group of three undated NSA slides provides a graphical representation of the sensitivity of aspects of the agency’s SENTRY EAGLE programme: see the Intercept article Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany, 10 October 2014.

This presentation, prepared for the Pacific SIGDEV Conference in March 2011 describes the organisation, operations and modernisation of the NSA’s Special Collection Service division, which works out of US embassies and consultates across the world, in tandem with the CI see the Der Spiegel article The NSA in Germany: Snowden’s Documents Available for Download, 18 […]

This slide from a March 2013 NSA Special Source Operations presentation reveals the existence of a FISA Court order (case number 13-319) relating to “Germany”, among others: see the Der Spiegel article ‘A’ for Angela: GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies and Merkel, 29 March 2014.

This 18 May 2010 article from the NSA internal newsletter SIDToday outlines how the agency is reacting to the growth of mobile phone services on board commercial aircraft: see the Intercept article American and British Spy Agencies Targeted In-flight Mobile Phone Use, 7 December 2016.

This 2010 NSA presentation describes Project Camberdada, an attempt to subvert popular antivirus software by means of surveilling email traffic: see the Intercept article Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks, 22 June 2015.

This background document, prepared by NSA officials in advance of a conversation with representatives of Germany’s domestic (BfV) and foreign (BND) intelligence services, outlines the continuing cooperation between the three agencies in the field of counterterrorism. Extracts from this document were published by Der Spiegel in July 2013: see the Der Spiegel article New NSA […]

This page from the NSA intranet dated July 2011 supplies advice from the NSA Offices of General Counsel (OGC) and Oversight and Compliance (NOC) on the admissibility of targeting strategies against the users of popular websites (including WikLeaks and the Pirate Bay): see the Intercept article Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed […]

This NSA information paper from April 2013 describes the state of the agency’s intelligence relationship with its New Zealand counterpart: see the New Zealand Herald article NZ’s spy reach stretches across globe, 11 March 2015.

This NSA classification guide from 2004 outlines the sensitivity of various aspects of the agency’s WHIPGENIE relationships with US corporate partners: see the Intercept article Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany, 10 October 2014.

This document, produced by the NSA and the US military’s Joint Functional Component Command – Network Wardare, provides a briefing on, and classification guide to, the highly sensitive group of “core computer network operations secrets” codenamed SENTRY EAGLE: see the Intercept article Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany, 10 October 2014.

This update from the NSANet intranet shows that the International Security Issues section of the agency shows a growing emphasis on gathering economic and financial information on the 13 countries under its remit: see the Fantástico article Veja os documentos ultrassecretos que comprovam espionagem a Dilma, 2 December 2013.

This briefing document, produced ahead of the SWEDUSA Strategic Planning Conference of 24-26 April, outlines General Keith Alexander’s talking points for the event: see the SVT article FRA part of top-secret hacker project, 11 December 2013.

This internal NSA briefing dated 17 January 2013 describes the current state of the US-German intelligence relationship and mentions that “The BND has been working to influence the German Government to relax interpretation of the privacy laws over the long term to provide greater opportunity for intelligence sharing”: see the Der Spiegel article New NSA […]

This background paper briefs issues to be discussed for a visit of senior BND personnel to Fort Meade, including Special Source Operations collaboration on a cable tap codenamed WHARPDRIVE: see the Der Spiegel article New NSA Revelations: Inside Snowden’s Germany File, 18 June 2014. media-34117

This 2006 NSA classification guide outlines the sensitivity of the agency’s clandestine human and electronic access to systems in order to “obtain cryptographic information and material”: see the Intercept article Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany, 10 October 2014.

This document outlines the NSA activities designated as “exceptionally controlled information”, which are only made known to a small number of US officials: see the Intercept article Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany, 10 October 2014.

This undated NSA document gives updates on various activities of the US-German Joint SIGINT Activity during 2007: see the Der Spiegel article Snowden-Dokumente: Hier sitzt die NSA in Deutschland, 18 June 2014. jsa

This internal NSA briefing document from 19 April 2014 supplies background information for a Strategic Planning Meeting with senior BND officers to discuss future collaboration between Germany and the US: see the Der Spiegel article Spying Together: Germany’s Deep Cooperation with the NSA, 18 June 2014.

SIGINT operations in support of U.S. Army Europe and European Command will start at a facility in Darmstadt, Germany, in April 2004.

Description of Brig. Gen. Zahner’s speech, which covered the role of intelligence in Operation Iraqi Freedom and the importance of taking risks.