This October 2005 article, taken from the internal NSA newsletter Foreign Affairs Digest, provides a brief history of the agency’s past and current relationship with its Turkish counterparts, which includes a staff of 40 NSA employees stationed in Ankara: see the Intercept article How the NSA Helped Turkey Kill Kurdish Rebels, 31 August 2014. Download […]

This undated Boundless Informant slide supplies collection data for a number of NSA projects: see the Der Spiegel article The NSA in Germany: Snowden’s Documents Available for Download, 18 June 2014.

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of Italian and Spanish phone records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013: see the Spiegel article How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe, 1 July 2013.

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of Norwegian phone records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from a facility codenamed US-987F: see the Dagbladet article Overhode ikke gitt tilgang, 19 November 2013.

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of phone (DNR) and internet (DNI) records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from NSA’s foreign partners: see the Der Spiegel article Spying Together: Germany’s Deep Cooperation with the NSA, 18 June 2014.

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of German phone (DNR) and internet (DNI) records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from Third Party sources. The US-987LA sigad that accounts for the largest number of records is based in Germany: see the Der Spiegel article Spying Together: Germany’s Deep Cooperation with […]

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of phone records collected between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013 by NSA’s unidentified corporate partner FAIRVIEW (US-990) – some 6 billion in total: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

These undated heat maps show the number of pieces of communications data the NSA gathers per country in a particular 30 day period, divided into telephony (DNR) and internet (DNI) metadata. Details in the second map refer to a period in January 2013 and third to a period ending in February the same year: see […]

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of German phone (DNR) and internet (DNI) records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from sources codenamed US-987LA and US-987LB: see the Der Spiegel article How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe, 1 July 2013.

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of Polish phone records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from a facility codenamed US-916: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

This internal NSA report dated 14 August 2009 describes that year’s SIGDEV (Sigint Development) Conference, in which representatives of 5 Eyes agencies and the wider US intelligence community meet “to synchronize discovery efforts, share breakthroughs, and swap knowledge on the art of analysis”: see the Intercept article: The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in […]

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of WINDSTOP records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013. WINDSTOP covers at least four NSA collection systems that depend on Five Eyes partners; the MUSCULAR project to intercept traffic from Google and Yahoo data centres is representated by the code DS-200B. In the given […]

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of Afghan phone records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from a facility codenamed US-962A5: see the Dagbladet article NSA-files repeatedly show collection of data «against countries» – not «from», 22 November 2013.

This three-page memo is an internal guide to the NSA’s Boundless Informant tool, which allows the agency’s Global Access Operations to assess its collection capabilities by means of metadata record counts: see the Guardian article Boundless Informant: the NSA’s secret tool to track global surveillance data, 8 June 2013.

This undated Boundless Informant slide supplies collection data for a number of NSA projects: see the Der Spiegel article The NSA in Germany: Snowden’s Documents Available for Download, 18 June 2014.

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of Dutch and French phone records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013: see the Spiegel article How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe, 1 July 2013.

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of Italian phone records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from a facility codenamed US-987A3005: see l’Espresso article Revealed: How the Nsa Targets Italy, 5 December 2013.

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of French phone records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013: see the Le Monde article France in the NSA’s crosshair: phone networks under surveillance, 21 October 2013.