This document is a briefing by the GCHQ pertaining to the Kurdish people in Iraq. It includes definitions of the Kurds and Kurdistan, details about the decentralized governement of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and discusses…
This document is an internal GCHQ presentation. It describes the legal and regulatory framework that UK based intelligence services operate within. It describes key pieces of legislation, key commissions and regulatory watchdogs, and also compares…
This document is also known as United States Signals Intelligence Directive 18. It prescribes policies and procedures, and assigns responsibilities to ensure that the NSA's signals intelligence activities are aligned with the U.S. Constitution's 4th…
This document is also known as United States Signals Intelligence Directive 18. It prescribes policies and procedures, and assigns responsibilities to ensure that the NSA's signals intelligence activities are aligned with the U.S. Constitution's 4th…
This document is a chart that details the legalities of particular repositories and data sources used by both GCHQ and the NSA such as Pilbeam, Salamanca and UDAQ {UK} and Marina, Mainway and Dishfire {USA}.
This document is a presentation prepared by CSEC. It describes the LEVITATION program, an effort to monitor file sharing sites in order to locate extremist training and propoganda materials. This program is capable of monitoring 10-15 million…
This document is a CSEC presentation deck giving an overview of LEVITATION, "a behaviour-based target discovery project." LEVITATION is used to identify targets based on documents downloaded from free file upload (FFU) services such as Sendspace and…
This document is a NSA briefing on the potential political talking points and "landmines"for NSA officials to be aware of in preparation for the visit of GCHQ Director Iain Lobban.
This document is a page from GCHQ's internal wiki, GCWiki. It is an article describing the LOVELY HORSE program. This program aimed to monitor and index discussion on social media sites such as Twitter. The main targets of the program appear to have…