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26 unusual facts about National Security Agency


1969 EC-121 shootdown incident

These missions, while nominally under the command of Seventh Fleet and CINCPAC, were actually controlled operationally by the Naval Security Group detachment at NSF Kamiseya, Japan, under the direction of the National Security Agency.

Armorines

Meanwhile, the Armorine Sirot, who is also an agent of the National Security Agency, met with Garrett and forged a truce of sorts.

Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security

Largely as a result of early CIAS activities, UTSA was the first university in Texas to receive designation as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency.

Chuck Versus the Subway

Meanwhile, General Beckman defends Operation Bartowski in front of a board of National Security directors.

Consumer Watchdog

It also alleged that Google's influence with the Obama Administration, the US Department of Homeland Security, Federal Communications Commission, NASA, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the US Department of Defense, and the US National Security Agency has helped shield Google, and caused what they described as insufficient Federal government action on Google’s Wi-Fi privacy infringements.

Cryptographic Quarterly

The Cryptographic Quarterly is an internal, classified journal of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).

Dining cryptographers problem

The waiter informs them that the meal has been paid by someone, who could be one of the cryptographers or the National Security Agency (NSA).

Dishfire

Dishfire (stylised DISHFIRE) is a covert global surveillance collection system and database run by the United States of America's National Security Agency (NSA) and the United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) that collects hundreds of millions of text messages on a daily basis from around the world.

Fabyan Villa

In fact, the National Security Agency has recognized Riverbank Laboratories as the birthplace of cryptology and has honored Fabyan for his associated services to the United States' government.

Fourth Amendment Protection Act

If enacted as law, they would prohibit the state governments from co-operating with the National Security Agency, whose mass surveillance efforts are seen as unconstitutional by the proposals' proponents.

Ignatius Mattingly

Prior to his academic career, he was an analyst for the National Security Agency from 1955 to 1966.

Jamaat al Muslimeen

Currently they are under surveillance by the local National Security Agency as well as the United States Central Intelligence Agency for suspected terrorist relations with the Middle East, as are two other Muslim factions.

Jason Wynn

Wynn is the director of the United States Security Group, an umbrella agency encompassing the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and National Security Council.

Mass surveillance in East Germany

In the wake of the 2013 global surveillance disclosures, a former stasi officer commented that the NSA capabilities "would have been a dream come true" for the Stasi.

The US National Security Agency (NSA) built one of its largest listening stations on top of Teufelsberg hill in the British sector of West Berlin, allegedly part of the global surveillance network ECHELON.

Northeast Cape Air Force Station

The detachment's Morse code intercept operators and Russian language linguists were tasked with the surveillance and collection of voice and electronic signals, to be forwarded to the National Security Agency for intelligence analysis.

Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute

The facility was transferred from NASA to the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1981 and was used as an intelligence gathering facility for the United States.

Richard A. Sossi

He also completed Officers' Cryptologic Course for the National Security Agency in 1969.

Scott Willis

Willis, the youngest of three children was born on February 20, 1952 in Munich, Germany, where his father was on assignment with the National Security Agency.

The Home Front

Diana figures that they are to the families of the 4400s Gary helped the NSA with and Gary states that he is doing this to give the families a sense of closure.

The Mira Hong Kong

In 2013 after fleeing Hawaii, Edward Snowden stayed in The Mira as he announced that he had leaked classified documents of the National Security Agency (NSA).

The Pretender 2001

Jarod is now posing as an agent of the National Security Agency; he is part of a task force assembled to find the "Chameleon", a killer who displays all the adaptive traits of a Pretender.

Total Information Awareness

According to a 2012 New York Times article, the legacy of Total Information Awareness is "quietly thriving" at the National Security Agency (NSA).

Trust Metric

The rest of the team analyze NSA satellite photographs of the Port of Los Angeles to find Colby and Dwayne and find Lancer's SUV at the port.

Trust No 1

The husband reveals to Scully that he works for the NSA and has no name; Patti says their daughter is just like William, and they only want to keep both children safe.

William Enyart

On July 24, 2013, Enyart voted against a proposed amendment by Justin Amash (R-MI) that would have defunded warrantless domestic surveillance operations by the National Security Agency.


Anna Diggs Taylor

Her ruling, ACLU v. NSA, held that the domestic wiretapping conducted by the National Security Agency without court approval violates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and is unconstitutional.

Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

The Guardian and The New York Times have reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) inserted a CSPRNG into NIST SP 800-90A that had a backdoor which allows the NSA to readily decrypt material that was encrypted with the aid of Dual EC DRBG.

Dennis Ryland

In season three he begins working as the leader of a privately owned company, Haspel Corporation, a defense contractor aiding the NSA in the tracking of the Nova Group, a terrorist organization of 4400 returnees.

Heterogeneous Element Processor

HEP systems were acquired by Los Alamos, the Argonne National Laboratory, the Ballistic Research Laboratory, probably the National Security Agency, and Germany's Messerschmitt which had the only 4 processor PEM system.

Jennifer Granick

Granick has been a speaker at conferences such as Def Con and ShmooCon, and has also spoken at the National Security Agency as well as to other law enforcement officials.

Leo Rosen

Rosen also contributed his engineering talents during and after the war at Arlington Hall, after the S.I.S. became the Army Security Agency, later to become AFSA and finally the present National Security Agency.

Naval Security Group

In addition to being part of the Navy, NAVSECGRU was also part of the National Security Agency's Central Security Service.

Netco Government Services

Netco provides network infrastructure and IT support services for government agencies including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy (DOE), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), National Security Agency (NSA), Office of Naval Research (ONR), U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Navy.

Patrick Air Force Base

These rockets include satellites for the US military, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the National Security Agency, as well as scientific payload launches in support of NASA, weather satellite launches in support of NOAA, payloads in support of international customers such as the European Space Agency, and commercial payloads for various corporate communications entities.

Paul Sarvela

He began his professional career as a program evaluator for Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation (1984–86), primarily doing classified work for the National Security Agency.

Ronald Pelton

Ronald William Pelton (born November 18, 1941) was an National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence analyst who was convicted in 1986 of spying for and selling secrets to the Soviet Union.

Russian ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C.

In 1980, Ronald Pelton, a National Security Agency communications analyst, walked into the Soviet Embassy.

Secure voice

NSA's STU-III, KY-57 and SCIP are examples of systems that operate over existing voice circuits.

Spying on the United Nations

The British newspaper The Observer published an investigative report revealing that the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States was conducting a secret surveillance operation directed at intercepting the telephone and email communications of several U.N. Security Council diplomats, both in their offices and in their homes.

Stasi 2.0

The phrase Stasi 2.0 has been used by protestors criticising Barack Obama by likening him to a Stasi figure in The Lives of Others during the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures about the involvement of the National Security Agency in monitoring German communications, including those of chancellor Angela Merkel

Sugar Grove Station

Sugar Grove Station is an American government communications site located near Sugar Grove in Pendleton County, West Virginia operated by the National Security Agency (NSA).

The Shadow Factory

The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America is a book on the National Security Agency by author James Bamford.

ThinThread

ThinThread is the name of a project that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) pursued during the 1990s, according to a May 17, 2006 article in The Baltimore Sun.