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 June 2010 NSA presentation for the SIGDEV conference describes efforts to trace a suspected Chinese cyber attack: see the Der Spiegel article The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle, 17 January 2015.

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 24 February 2005 article from the internal NSA newsletter Foreign Affairs Digest describes third party cooperation and interoperability in High Frequency Direction-Finding (HFDF): see the Intercept article Japan Made Secret Deals With The NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance, 24 April 2017.

This undated NSA presentation sets out the network-mapping tool Treasure Map, and supplies information on some of the agency’s collection access points: see the Intercept article New Zealand Launched Mass Surveillance Project While Publicly Denying It, 15 September 2014.

Repeat: Announcement of cross-agency analyst forum on SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), including impact of the virus on China’s military.

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. 

Turkey may not be the NSA’s oldest third-party partner, the writer says. Earlier signals intelligence foreign relationships are described. 

Announcement of a brown-bag event on a recent National Intelligence Estimate concerning China and Taiwan.

An intelligence analyst with experience in weapons and space is needed for a foreign liaison officer position in Yokota, Japan. The posting warns that "air pollution, particularly in summer months, can be severe."

This slide, taken from the NSA’s annual report on the state of its cooperation with foreign powers, details the countries that have received payments from the agency: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

This slide, taken from the NSA’s annual review of its cooperation with foreign partners, shows an expansion in the agency’s international relationships: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

A new signals intelligence partnership with Taiwan has yielded over 50 reports about Chinese military activity. The NSA has been able to provide some of these to its customers.

Some more wacky jobs agency employees held prior to joining the NSA include dancing waitress and mosquito bite test count subject. 

The U.S. closed a number of High Frequency Direction-Finding sensor sites in the 1990s. To ensure they're able to track signals in areas that had previously been covered by now-shuttered stations, the Signals Intelligence Directorate worked with Second and Third Party partners to share resources and establish a global direction-finding network.

The author outlines major issues facing China and explains how they are likely to "dominate Chinese decision-makers' thinking for the next six months," as well as affect the regional and global economy.

A 24-year NSA veteran describes her career as an analyst on missions involving the Soviet Union, Korea, and China.