This post from internal NSA newsletter SIDToday dated 19 November 2003 provides an early description of FAIRVIEW and STORMBREW, later known as Upstream collection: see the Intercept article Iraqi Insurgents Stymied the NSA and Other Highlights from 263 Internal Agency Reports, 10 August 2016.

This 18 April 2012 post from the NSA internal newsletter SSO Weekly reveals that AT&T (FAIRVIEW) cooperated with the NSA, under the terms of a FISA court order, to enable the agency to surveil the internet traffic going to and from the United Nations headquarters in New York: see the New York Times article AT&T […]

This 28 March 2012 post from the NSA internal newsletter SSO Weekly describes the agency’s relationship with AT&T (FAIRVIEW) as “highly collaborative”: see the New York Times article AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale, 15 August 2015.

This internal document for NSA employees dated 6 February 2013 provides a guide for visiting facilities related with the FAIRVIEW programme, including the TITANPOINTE building in New York City: see the Intercept article Titanpointe: The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain View, 16 November 2016.

Excerpts from slides describing GHOSTMACHINE, the NSA Special Source Operations cloud-based analytics platform: see the Washington Post article New documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data, 10 December 2013.

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.

This NSA report dated 11 April 2014 describes the difficulties with the network switches the agency had compromised on Cisco devices in order to collect data from Cisco customers: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

This April 2012 NSA presentation uses an AT&T specific term – Common Backbone or CBB – to refer to the Internet backbone of the corporate partner it codenames FAIRVIEW: see the New York Times article AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale, 15 August 2015.

This excerpt from the 14 March 2013 edition of internal NSA newsletter SSO Weekly describes an incident on 12 March where “unwitting” contractors discovered a cable tap known as WHARPDRIVE, which had to be discreetly reinstalled and provides details about the Breckenridge access point that corroborate the identification of the NSA’s corporate partner STORMBREW as […]

This extract from an undated NSA document describes the agency’s unidentified corporate partner FAIRVIEW, which has gone to unusual lengths to assist the agency: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

This NSA memo from 23 March 2012 presentation describes the agency’s proposal for a fourth FAA 702 certification that would allow it to target hackers “tied to malicious cyber activity”: see the New York Times article Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border, 4 June 2015.

This 23 August 2011 post from the internal NSA newsletter SSO Weekly describes the disruption caused to collection from a Japanese-American cable by an earthquake. The date of service resumption correlated with the AT&T operated cable in the region: see the New York Times article AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale, […]

This undated NSA Special Source Operations presentation describes the agency’s relationship with corporate partner AT&T, codenamed FAIRVIEW: see the New York Times article AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale, 15 August 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 13 January 2012 post from the NSA internal newsletter SSO Weekly mentions the “extreme willingness to help” of AT&T (FAIRVIEW) towards the agency: see the New York Times article AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale, 15 August 2015.

This 30 August 2011 post from the NSA internal newsletter SSO Weekly reveals that AT&T (FAIRVIEW) began sending over 1.1bn US mobile phone records to the agency every day: see the New York Times article AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale, 15 August 2015.

This extract is from an undated dictionary produced by NSA Special Source Operations, provides glosses for several terms associated with the corporate partner FAIRVIEW, including the AT&T-specific term ‘SNRC’: see the New York Times article AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale, 15 August 2015.

This NSA Special Source Operations presentation from 22 March 2013 supplies a detail about the Breckenridge access point that supports the identification of the corporate partner codenamed STORMBREW as US telecommunications company Verizon: see the New York Times article AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale, 15 August 2015.

This undated NSA presentation, presented together with speaking notes, provides an introduction to the main cable access programmes facilitated by the agency’s corporate partners and specifies the relevant SIGADs: see the book No Place to Hide, 13 May 2014.