NSA's Offensive and Defensive Missions: The Twain Have Met
Title
NSA's Offensive and Defensive Missions: The Twain Have Met
Subject
PINWALE
Description
This document is an article from the internal NSA newsletter SIDtoday. The article discusses the success of a collaboration between offensive and defensive branches of the NSA. For example, the revelation of a Chinese cyber attack on the Department of Defense was used to gain visibility into Chinese SIGINT intelligence, notably including files that the Chinese intelligence team had accessed from the United Nations. The article refers to this kind of operation as "Fourth Party collection."
Creator
National Security Agency - Threat Operations Center
Publisher
Der Spiegel
Relation
Snowden
Language
en
Date:Created
2011-04-26
Source:Classification
Top Secret
Source:Redactions
IAD Chief's name redacted
Report:Creator
Michael Sontheimer
NumPages
3
CreatorOffice
NTOC
Date:Leaked
2015-01-17
Distribution
5VEY
Surveillance Programs
SIGINT
Collection
Citation
National Security Agency - Threat Operations Center, “NSA's Offensive and Defensive Missions: The Twain Have Met,” Snowden Archive, accessed November 21, 2024, https://snowden.glendon.yorku.ca/items/show/30.
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