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This document contains slides from a progress presentation on the MYSTIC audio surveillance program. Slides include one example of information collected on a specific target, as well as bar graphs displaying the weekly data reports collected for many…

This document is a presentation demonstrating the NSA's Special Source Operation's efforts to optimize their collection of Google's internal network traffic.

This document is an extract from a weekly NSA Special Source Opertations briefing memo which describes protocol for the bulk collection, storage, and analysis of audio content and metadate under the SCALWAG program, a sub-program of MYSTIC.

This document is a presentation describing the NSA's STORMBREW program, an UPSTREAM collection program that intercepts internet communications as they pass through points in the US's fibre optic communications infrastructure. The slides are in a very…

This document is a slide from a NSA Special Source Operations presentation on "Google Cloud Exploitation", a component of the MUSCULAR program, administered by GCHQ. MUSCULAR involves the interception of the data flows across the fibre optic cables…

This document is an extract from an NSA internal Wiki page explaining the activities undertaken within Special Source Operations to optimize collection from SSO sites. This process is described by the NSA as "collection optimization", and impacts a…

This document contains an extract from the FY13 Congressional Budget Justification for the National Intelligence Program discussing the addition of another country to the MYSTIC program. The MYSTIC program monitors voice call metadata and content.

This document is a selection of slides from an internal NSA presentation describing the PRISM program. This program involved mining internet metadata directly from the servers from nine leading U.S. Internet companies. The NSA's partners in this…

This document is an NSA presentation prepared by the Special Collection Service division in preparation for the Pacific Sigdev Conference held in March 2011. It describes the organizational structure of the division, including key strategic…

This document is an article from SIDToday, an internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate division. It contains an interview with the author of an advice column called 'Ask Zelda'.