National Security Agency

Presidential Transition 2001: NSA Briefs a New Administration (2004 Document)

Background / Excerpt The American electoral process retains many vestiges reflecting its eighteenth century origins. In the age of supersonic transport and…

February 7, 2019

The CIA’s Kryptos Statue

Background Kryptos is an encrypted sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency…

November 5, 2018

NSA Surveillance Program: PROMIS

Background PROMIS is believed by some to be the forefunner to the now infamous "Prism" program by the National Security…

October 29, 2018

Global Network Intelligence and Information Warfare: SIGINT and INFOSEC in Cyberspace, 1995

Background According to this article: "GNI (Global Network Intelligence) and IW (Information Warfare) are two acronyms that have become part…

August 22, 2018

Doing Business Smarter: A Proposal for Consolidating NSA’s Analysis and Reporting of Foreign Space borne Reconnaissance,1994

Background The following document was published in the Cryptologic Quarterly, Summer 1994, Volume 13, Issue No. 2. When it was first…

June 19, 2018