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This document is a report authored by members of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate. It describes the NSA's efforts to encourage US officials to share their personal contact databases (called "rolodexes") to provide contact information for…

This document discusses the success of a NSA training session in SIGINT for its third-party partners in the Five Eye network.

This document is a NSA brief explaining the FISC court-ordered procedures and restrictions for the (now defunct) NSA bulk electronic communications metadata program. This document includes standards for accessing the data, access requirements,…

This document is an article from an internal NSA wiki. It describes an analysts methodology and process of collecting and analyzing data gleaned from employees of Petroleos de Venezuela, the primary oil producer of Venezuela.

This document is an article from the internal NSA newsletter, SIDToday, discussing the new facilities planned for the ROC - Remote Operations Center. This new facility will enhance the NSA's endpoint operations capability, which work to "subvert…

This document contains presentation slides from the NSA Office of SIGINT Development detailing bulk data collection and analysis protocol improvements for greater efficiency and prioritzation of targets.

This document contains slides from a weekly NSA presentation which allude to the discovery of an "access point for WHARPDRIVE" by personnel of a commerical target and the resulting cover up.

This is an NSA document from the internal newsletter SIDtoday. It is written by Teresa H. Shea, Director, Signal Intelligene Directorate, and gives general congratulations to the 'SIGINT Enterprise' for a successful 2011, with a focus on their work…

This document is an internal NSA presentation. It outlines the features of the XKEYSCORE data analysis application, specifically, its ability to retrieve data based on both HTTP traffic and user activity metadata.

This document is a classification guide that describes the appropriate security classificiations to be used when describing different elements of the operations of the NSA's Office of Cryptanalysis and Exploitation Services, including the…