Description of an NSA office in Canberra, Australia, staffed by 16 people who work closely with the Australian and New Zealand spy agencies, including to break a network used by the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.

This 19 November 2008 article from the NSA internal newsletter SIDToday presents an interview with the head of US Special Liaison Activity Japan (SUSLAJ), who describes Japan’s reluctance to participate in multinational SIGINT fora and historic agency operations in Pakistan and the Philippines: see the Intercept article Japan Made Secret Deals With The NSA That […]

The origins of U.S. Special Operations Command are described. NSA staff have a presence at the command to provide signals intelligence and other services. 

Jemaah Islamiyah, a terrorist group, was responsible for the Bali and Jakarta bombings in 2002-2003 and remains a threat in southeast Asia. Collection information from the NSA about the group is passed on to the Australian Defence Signals Directorate.

Announcement of a “Terrorism in Southeast Asia” seminar about Jemaah Islamiyah and terrorist groups in the Philippines.

The PATENTHAMMER system was developed for SOCOM for advanced signal collection with remote, reach-back capability and deployed to Kosovo, Georgia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the Philippines.

A joint US Navy and NSA report, prepared three months after a US spy plane was forced to crash land in China, assesses the degree to which surveillance secrets were compromised: see the Intercept article Burn After Reading: Snowden Documents Reveal Scope of Secrets Exposed to China in 2001 Spy Plane Incident, 10 April 2017. […]

The new assistant deputy director for data acquisition answers questions about his career, his recent tour at Pacific Command, and plans for his management role. 

Staffers remember Thanksgiving meals they had while deployed in Kenya, Somalia, Philippines, and Germany. 

This extract is taken from an undated dictionary produced by NSA Special Source Operations, providing glosses for several terms associated with MYSTIC operations. The name of one country has been redacted: see the Intercept article Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas, 19 May 2014. Download […]

This NSA presentation from 9 June 2011 shows the scale of the agency’s collection of SMS messages (codenamed Dishfire) and describes the operation of the Prefer analysis tool: see the Guardian article, NSA collects millions of text messages daily in ‘untargeted’ global sweep, 16 January 2014.

This 2007 post in the NSA’s internal newsletter SIDToday describes growing cooperation within the Sigint Seniors Pacific (SSPAC) group on counter-terrorism issues: see the Intercept article The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed, 1 March 2018.

For Army Day, Maj. Gen. Richard Quirk delivers lengthy remarks about the history and ethos of the U.S. Army, and urges Signals Intelligence Directorate staff to "recommit yourself to the Country, the mission, and your fellow soldiers."

The sixth Korea rock drill raised the issue of information sharing on Korea issues to second parties and beyond. The scenarios addressed non-combatant evacuation operations, SIGINT in a counteroffensive to a North Korean attack, and operations in a newly unified Korea.