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HOPSCOTCH

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Release Date: 2014-12-13

This undated extract from a GCHQ document cites the codename HOPSCOTCH, also found in an analysis of Regin malware: see the Intercept article Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco, 13 December 2014.

31. Sending all these edges from one cloud to the other would have other advantages. It would essentially allow us to have all summarised contact pairs in one location and this would make other ...

Belgacom_connections

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Release Date: 2014-12-13

This undated GCHQ screenshot, which appears to be from a map viewer called CARBON ROD, shows the international connections that made Belgacom a desirable target for the agnecy: see the Intercept article Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco, 13 December 2014.

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GCHQ NAC Business Review – January to March 2011

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Release Date: 2014-12-13 Document Date: 2011-01-01

This extract from a 2011 GCHQ Network Analysis Centre document details progress in the operation against Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom in the first quarter of 2011: see the Intercept article Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco, 13 December 2014.

Successful MyNOC surge effort against GRX Operators, that enhanced network knowledge of the various operators, their customer sets, knowledge of and access to both encrypted and unencrypted GRX ...

Making Network Sense of the encryption problem

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Release Date: 2014-12-13 Document Date: 2011-01-01

This 2011 presentation by the head of GCHQ’s Network Analysis Centre outlines the agency’s interest in exploiting telecommunications companies, namely to “get at the data before it is encrypted”: see the Intercept article Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco, 13 December 2014.

TOP SECRET STRAP 2 // REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL ------m/\cz NETWORK ^IM^ySIS CSfSJTRe Making Network Sense of the encryption problem Roundtable Head of GCHQ NAC This info...

Classification Guide for SIGINT Material Dating from 16 August 1945 – 31 December 1967

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Release Date: 2014-06-18 Document Date: 2011-11-21

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.

TOP SECRET//SjyTK//NOFÜRN NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE (U) CLASSIFICATION GUIDE FOR SIGINT Material Dating from 16 August 1945 *31 December 1967 Effects Dale: 21 De...

Tier B allies

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Release Date: 2014-05-13

This undated internal NSA document illustrates the degrees of cooperation in the agency’s relationships with different foreign powers. “Tier A” and “Tier B” are elsewhere referred to as Second and Third Parties: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

Page 123 CONFIDENT1AL//NOFORN//20291123 TIER A Comprehensive Cooperation Australia Canada New Zealand United Kingdom TIERB Focused Cooperation Austria Belgium Czech Republic Denmark G...

NSA Washington Mission

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Release Date: 2014-05-13 Document Date: 2006-01-01

This excerpt from a 2006 NSA memo written by the global resources manager of the International Security Issues (ISI) mission underlines the importance of data on energy resources, production and international investment to the agency: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

Page 138 (U) NSA Washington Mission (U) Regional (TS//SI) ISI is responsible for 13 individual nation states in three continents. One significant tie that binds all these countries togethe...

Sydney Jaffe Career Language Award Winners

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Release Date: 2016-05-16 Document Date: 2003-06-04

Language award winners are announced.

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U) Sydney Jaffe Career Language Award Winners FROM: SIGINT Communications Unk...

Scavenger Hunt Answers

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Release Date: 2016-08-10 Document Date: 2003-10-14

Answers to the Scavenger Hunt questions are revealed.

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U) Scavenger Hunt Answers FROM: SIGINT Communications Run Date: 10/14/2003...

Starting Up a New Mission at the European Security Operations Center: End-to-End Sigint

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Release Date: 2014-06-18 Document Date: 2007-12-05

This internal NSA post from 5 December 2007 describes one official’s experiences at the European Security Operations Center (ESOC) at Darmstadt, Germany: see the Der Spiegel article Terrorverdächtige: NSA nutzte Erkenntnisse aus Deutschland-Filiale für Tötungen, 15 June 2014.

(S//SI//REL) Starting Up a New Mission at the European Security Operations Center: End-to-End SIGINT FROM Intelligence Analysis Intern Run Date; 12/05/2007 (S//SI//REL) When considering...

SHAPE Weekly Report on NATO-led Operations – 13 May 2011

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Release Date: 2015-05-18 Document Date: 2011-05-13

This extract from a NATO intelligence report dated May 2011 provides an assessment of the implications of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound for the Taliban: see the Intercept article What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, 18 May 2015.

shape-weekly-report-13-may-2011-r-p1-normal.gif: NATO SECRET SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED POWERS EUROPE GRAND QUARTIER GÉNÉRAL DES PUISSANCES ALLIÉES EN EUROPE B-7010 SHAPE, BELGIUM ...

Pay attention to that man behind the curtain: Discovering aliens on CNE infrastructure

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Release Date: 2015-01-17 Document Date: 2010-06-01

This June 2010 CSEC presentation for the CSEC conference outlines counter-computer network exploitation (CCNE) techniques: see the Der Spiegel article The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle, 17 January 2015.

TOP SECRET II COMINT Pay attention to that man behind the curtain: Discovering aliens on CNE infrastructure CSEC Counter-CNE Target Analytics thread SIGDEV Conference NSA-June 201...

GCHQ NAC Business Review – January to March 2012

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Release Date: 2014-12-13 Document Date: 2012-01-01

This extract from a 2012 GCHQ document details progress in the operation against Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom in the first quarter of 2012: see the Intercept article Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco, 13 December 2014.

CNE Access to BELGACOM GRX Operator: (GREEN) This work continues to be very productive with the CNE EREPO team providing new requirements for the NAC to help steer and support their operation.

GCHQ NAC Business Review – April to June 2011

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Release Date: 2014-12-13 Document Date: 2011-02-01

This extract from a 2011 GCHQ document details progress in the operation against Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom in the second quarter of 2011: see the Intercept article Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco, 13 December 2014.

CNE Access to BELGACOM GRX Operator: (GREEN) Following the successful NAC MyNOC OP SOCIALIST to provide CNE access to the BELGACOM GRX Operator (MERION ZETA), the NAC have continued to provide a...

STARGATE CNE Requirements

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Release Date: 2014-12-13

This undated page taken from GCHQ’s internal GCWiki cites the codename LEGSPIN (highlighted) also found in an analysis of Regin malware: see the Intercept article Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco, 13 December 2014. gchq-stargate-cne-requirements

SECRET STRAP1 COMINT The maximum classification allowed on GCWiki is TOP SECRET STRAP1 COMINT. Click to report inappropriate content. For GCWiki help contact: webteam Support page STA...

Mobile Networks in MyNOC World

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Release Date: 2014-12-13 Document Date: 2011-01-01

This GCHQ presentation from 2011 provides the background to the agency’s hacking attack on Belgacom: see the Intercept article Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco, 13 December 2014. gchq-mobile-networks-in-my-noc-world

TOP SECRET STRAP 2 Mobile Networks in World Head of GCHQ NAC n/\c This information is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and may be subject to exemptio...

Automated NOC Detection

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Release Date: 2014-12-13 Document Date: 2011-01-01

This 2011 presentation, created by GCHQ’s Network Analysis Centre describes new techniques for gathering reconnaissance on the IT personnel of targeted organisations (their “Network Operations Centres”), using Belgacom as an example in several slides: see the Intercept article Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco, 13 December 2014. Download […]

TOP SECRET STRAP 2 Automated NOC Detection , Head of GCHQ NAC Senior Network Analyst, CSEC NAC n/\c This information is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act ...

Cable Master List

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Release Date: 2014-11-25 Document Date: 2009-07-27

These July 2009 documents provide a full list of the fibre-optic cables GCHQ had access to at that point, including details of location, bandwidth and corporate partners: see the Süddeutsche Zeitung article Snowden-Leaks: How Vodafone-Subsidiary Cable & Wireless Aided GCHQ’s Spying Efforts, 25 November 2014. […]

partner_cables.pdf: Partner Cable UK? REMEDY GERONTIC DACRON LITTLE PINNAGE STREET CAR VITREOUS Apolo UK IRU/LC DCO IRU/LC IRU/LC IRU/LC CANTAT 3 UK DCO IRU/LC Concerto UK D...

Exhibit F

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Release Date: 2014-06-30 Document Date: 2010-07-16

This document lists the 193 governments, intragovernmental organisations and other entities which the NSA was granted the legal authority to intercept communications “about” for foreign intelligence purposes in August 2010: see the Washington Post article Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, 30 June 2014.

TOP SECRET//NOFORN EXHIBIT F IN THE MATTER OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, FOREIGN FACTIONS Ns?F^yyiG#i 11- ENTITIES, AND FOREIGN-BASED POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS >■,, f;f |:VV DNI/AG 70...

Third Party Partners

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Release Date: 2013-12-08

This short excerpt from an NSA document shows that nine European States – Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden – have a second-tier ‘third party’ relationship with the agency: see the SVT article NSA “asking for” specific exchanges from FRA – Secret treaty since 1954, 8 December 2013.

* (S//SI. REU) SSEU’R. members are the Five Eyes nations (Australia, Canada. New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States] and the following Tliird Party partners: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germ...

NSA Intelligence Relationship with New Zealand

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Release Date: 2015-03-10 Document Date: 2013-04-01

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.

TOP SECRET//SI//REL TO USA, FVEY National Security Agency April 2013 Central Security Service Information Paper (U) Subject: NSA Intelligence Relationship with New Zealand (U) Execu...

GCHQ NAC Business Review – July to September 2011

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Release Date: 2014-12-13 Document Date: 2011-01-01

This extract from a 2011 GCHQ document details progress in the operation against Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom in the third quarter of 2011: see the Intercept article Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco, 13 December 2014.

CNE Access to BELGACOM GRX Operator: (GREEN) Following the successful NAC MyNOC OP SOCIALIST to provide CNE access to the BELGACOM GRX Operator (MERION ZETA), the NAC have continued to provide a...

NSA Intelligence Relationship with Germany – Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)

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Release Date: 2014-06-18 Document Date: 2013-01-17

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 […]

TOP SECRET//S1//NOFORN National Security Agency/Central Security Service Information Paper 17 January 2013 Subject: (StfREL TO USA, FVEY} NS A Intelligence Relationship with Germany - B...

FY2013 Foreign Partner Review

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Release Date: 2014-05-13 Document Date: 2013-01-01

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.

Page 123 TOP SECRET// COMINT //REL USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL Approved SIGINT Partners ^ORTUtt^ Second Parties Third Parties Australia Algeria Israel Spain Canada Austria Italy Sweden...

The International Security Issues Build-Out

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Release Date: 2013-12-02 Document Date: 2012-11-09

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.

DYNAMIC PAGE - HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL Welcome! Friday. 09 Nov 2012 • Web search • Agency-all Emails • SID-all Emai...

SID Around the World: A Country the Size of Maryland

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Release Date: 2016-05-16 Document Date: 2003-06-26

In Belgium, SID has representatives at NATO in Brussels and Mons, where they work in an underground bunker.

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U//FOUO) SID Around the World: A Country the Size of Maryland FROM: SIGINT Commu...

SHAPE Weekly Report on NATO-led Operations – 1 June 2011

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Release Date: 2015-05-18 Document Date: 2011-06-01

This extract from a NATO intelligence report dated June 2011 provides an assessment of the implications of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound for the Taliban: see the Intercept article What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, 18 May 2015.

shape-weekly-report-01-jun-2011-r-p1-normal.gif: NATO SECRET GRAND QUARTIER GÉNÉRAL DES PUISSANCES ALLIÉES EN EUROPE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED POWERS EUROPE B-7010 SHAPE, BELGIUM ...

NSA Team Selected for Olympics Support

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Release Date: 2015-09-29 Document Date: 2003-12-15

This 15 December 2003 post from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday discusses plans for the agency’s operations at the Athens Olympics the following year: see the Intercept article A Death in Athens: Did a Rogue NSA Operation Cause the Death of a Greek Telecom Employee?, 29 September 2015.

id-488-redacted-formatted-p1-normal.gif: DYNAMIC PAGE - HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U//FOUO) NSA Team Selected for Olympics Suppo...

GCHQ NAC Business Review – October to December 2011

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Release Date: 2014-12-13 Document Date: 2011-01-01

This extract from a 2011 GCHQ document details progress in the operation against Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom in the final quarter of 2011: see the Intercept article Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco, 13 December 2014.

CNE Access to BELGACOM GRX Operator: (GREEN) This work has been very successful and has enabled not only CNE but also Crypt Ops by identifying a large number of VPN exploitation opportunities. T...

NSA Team Selected for Olympics Support

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Release Date: 2016-08-10 Document Date: 2003-12-15

SID had many openings for analytic support for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece, and the response was “overwhelming.” The article lists eight people selected out of 300 applicants.

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U//FOUO) NSA Team Selected for Olympics Support FROM: NSA Olympics Support Team<...

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