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Computer-Network Exploitation Successes South of the Border

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Release Date: 2013-10-20 Document Date: 2010-11-15

This extract from a 15 November 2010 NSA memo reveals that the agency has been able to access Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s email account: see the Der Spiegel article NSA Accessed Mexican President’s Email, 20 October 2013.

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The International Security Issues Build-Out

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Release Date: 2017-04-24 Document Date: 2006-05-17

This section of a 17 May 2006 article from an internal NSA newsletter makes it clear that Japanese foreign policy and trade activities are surveillance targets for the agency: see the Intercept article Japan Made Secret Deals With The NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance, 24 April 2017.

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Intelligently filtering your data: Brazil and Mexico case studies

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Release Date: 2013-12-02

A selection of slides from a Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) presentation gives case studies on the use of graph analysis in relation to the political leadership of Mexico and Brazil: see the Fantástico article Veja os documentos ultrassecretos que comprovam espionagem a Dilma, 2 December 2013.

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Games: a look at Emerging Trends, Uses, Threats and Opportunities in Influence Activities

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Release Date: 2013-12-09 Document Date: 2007-01-01

A 2007 proposal to the NSA from contractor SAIC, promoting the company’s ability to support “intelligence collection in the games space”: see the New York Times article Spies’ Dragnet Reaches a Playing Field of Elves and Trolls, 9 December 2013.

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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.

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Exploiting Foreign Lawful Intercept (LI) Roundtable

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Release Date: 2015-09-29 Document Date: 2012-01-01

This NSA presentation from 2012 discusses techniques for subverting “lawful intercept” systems used abroad: see the Intercept article A Death in Athens: Did a Rogue NSA Operation Cause the Death of a Greek Telecom Employee?, 29 September 2015.

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Tailored Access Operations – Texas Cryptologic Center

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Release Date: 2013-12-29

This NSA presentation describes the staffing and activities of the Tailored Access Operations sectio based in San Antonia Texas. These included operations against Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Security (codenamed WHITETAMALE), Cuba, Columbia, Venezuela and unspecified targets in the Middle East: see the Der Spiegel article Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit, 29 December […]

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BASECOAT

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Release Date: 2014-05-19 Document Date: 2013-05-02

This slide from a 2013 NSA Special Source Operations presentation shows that SOMALGET is used to investigate narcotics offenses: see the Intercept article: Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas, 19 May 2014.

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NSA Intelligence Relationship with Canada’s Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC)

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Release Date: 2014-05-13 Document Date: 2013-04-03

This largely redacted information paper from NSA’s Central Security Service dated 3 April 2013 details the current state of the agency’s cooperative relationship with its Canadian counterpart: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

TOP SECRET//SI//REL USA, FVEY National Security Agency/ 3 April 2013 Central Security Service Information Paper Subject: (U//FOUO) NSA Intelligence Relationship with Canada’s Commun...

What Happened to the United States Customs Service? (part 1)

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Release Date: 2017-04-24 Document Date: 2004-11-18

The author explains the transition of the former U.S. Customs Service into the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement within the new Department of Homeland Security.

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U) What Happened to the United States Customs Service? (part 1) FROM: NSA Re...

DAPINO GAMMA Target Personalisation Centres

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Release Date: 2015-02-19 Document Date: 2011-01-01

This 2011 Wiki page details aspects of GCHQ’s DAPINO GAMMA operation against mobile SIM manufacturer Gemalto: see the Intercept article The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle, 19 February 2015.

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Intro to the VPN Exploitation Process

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Release Date: 2014-12-28 Document Date: 2010-09-13

This 13 September 2010 presentation from the NSA’s OTP VPN Exploitation Team explains the work of the division: see the Der Spiegel story Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA’s War on Internet Security, 28 December 2014.

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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.

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Silent Success: SIGINT Synergy Helps Shape US Foreign Policy

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Release Date: 2013-08-02 Document Date: 2010-08-30

This August 2010 post from the internal NSA newsletter SIDtoday shows how the agency aided US diplomacy on the issue of Iran sanctions – by surveilling the communications of other members of the UN Security Council: see the Época article Spies of the digital age, 2 August 2013.

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SSO dictionary – MYSTIC

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Release Date: 2014-05-19

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 […]

BASECOAT (TS//SI//NF) MYSTIC acess; Bahamas A-link GSM. DEA access under LI that collects Counter-Narcotic (CN) targets. There are two sites located in the Bahamas. It is currently being used as a...

Broadcast/Intenet Radio Exploitation and Analysis

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Release Date: 2015-09-25 Document Date: 2009-11-06

This GCHQ research paper from 6 November 2009 outlines what kinds of data the agency can extract from internet radio stations and their listenership, grouped by country: see the Intercept article Profiled: From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities, 25 September 2015.

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Your target is using a BlackBerry? Now what?

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Release Date: 2013-09-09

This slide, from an undated NSA presentation, shows that the agency is able to defeat BlackBerry encryption technology – using an email from a Mexican government official as an example: see the Der Spiegel article iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data, 9 September 2013.

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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.

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Geopolitical trends for 2014-2019

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Release Date: 2013-12-02

Three redacted slides from an NSA presentation name several states as subjects of ongoing interest: see the Fantástico article Veja os documentos ultrassecretos que comprovam espionagem a Dilma, 2 December 2013.

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Passing on Target Expertise... IT Support... Averting an Assassination -- An Interview with REDACTED

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Release Date: 2017-04-24 Document Date: 2004-12-13

The chief of intelligence security issues describes an exciting career, which began with averting an assassination attempt against a congressional delegation by narco-insurgents in Asia. In the chief's opinion, the NSA needs better IT tools and functionalities, from web access to better PCs.

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U) Passing on Target Expertise... IT Support... Averting an Assassination -- An...

MG Q Iraq Theater TDY: Day 3, April 1, 2005

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Release Date: 2017-09-13 Document Date: 2005-04-06

A staffer from the Iraq Issue Management Team relates his experience in Baghdad, on his first trip to a war zone.

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U) MG Q Iraq Theater TDY: Day 3, April1, 2005 FROM: Iraq Issue Management Team Run Date: 04...

Remember the Alamo!

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Release Date: 2017-09-13 Document Date: 2005-02-25

A staffer at the Medina Regional Security Operations Center in San Antonio highly recommends moving to the city, despite Texas's high car insurance premiums for teenagers.

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U) Remember the Alamo! FROM: Chief, Communications and Support Services, NSA/CSS Texas (MRS...

GCSB XKeyScore fingerprint – May 2013

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Release Date: 2015-03-23 Document Date: 2013-05-06

This XKeyScore fingerprint, last modified on 6 May 2013, shows that New Zealand’s GCSB monitored candidates for the post of WTO director general: see the New Zealand Herald article How spy agency homed in on Groser’s rivals, 23 March 2015.

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Finding Nuggests — Quickly — in a Heap of Voice Collection, From Mexico to Afghanistan

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Release Date: 2015-05-05 Document Date: 2011-05-25

This 25 May 2011 post from the NSA internal newsletter SIDToday describes the agency’s development of speech to text technology: see the Intercept article The Computers are Listening: How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text, 5 May 2015.

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SIGINTers Use Human Language Technology to Great Advantage, Isolate Conversation About Threat to US

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Release Date: 2018-01-19 Document Date: 2010-09-14

This September 2010 article from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday recounts how voice recognition technology enabled analysts to find the salient record from over 1300 voice conversations in “less than four minutes”: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (TS//SI//REL) SIGINTers Use Human Language Technology to Great Advantage, Isolate Convers...

GOOOOAAAALLLL!!! — World Cup Report From SUSLAG

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Release Date: 2018-03-01 Document Date: 2006-08-25

This SIDToday report from August 2006 describes the role played by NSA, Germany’s BND and the Sigint Seniors Counterterrorism alliance (SISECT) during 2006’s World Cup: see the Intercept article The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed, 1 March 2018.

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U) GOOOOAAAALLLL!!! -- World Cup Report from SUSLAG FROM: Special US Liaison Activity Ge...

Supporting HMG’s Climate Change Ambitions (… or, “A GCO’s tales from Cancun”)

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Release Date: 2014-11-01 Document Date: 2011-02-01

This joint GCHQ/MI6 presentation from February 2011 documents the process of international climate change negotiations becoming a “serious intelligence priority” for the UK: see the Dagbladet Information article Snowden documents reveal British climate espionage – Copenhagen climate summit targeted, 1 November 2014.

GCHQ SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE Supporting HMG’s Climate Change Ambitions (...or, “A GCO’s tales from Cancún”) 27 November - 10 December 2010 GCHQ SECRET INTELLI...

MYSTIC fact sheet

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Release Date: 2014-05-19

This undated NSA Special Source Operations memo explains MYSTIC a collaboration between various US agencies that collects signals from telecoms networks by means of devices have been installed for ostenisbly “legitimate commercial services”: see the Intercept article Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas, 19 May […]

(U) General Information MYSTIC Year Established Description Intelligence Value Major Targets Major Benefactors & users of Information (U) 2009 (TS//SI//NF) MYSTIC is an SS...

'Key Reads' Effort Expands, Scores Successes

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Release Date: 2018-03-01 Document Date: 2005-09-26

The “key reads” process, first developed for Central Command needs in Operation Iraqi Freedom, has been expanded to more topics and customers. Key reads respond to specific customer requests in less than three days.

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (C//SI) 'Key Reads' Effort Expands, Scores Successes FROM: Requirements Analysis Center (S114...

Army Values Ingrained in Every New Recruit

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Release Date: 2017-09-13 Document Date: 2005-05-19

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."

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U) Army Values Ingrained in Every New Recruit FROM: MG Richard Quirk, USA Signals Intelligen...

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