NSA's Oldest Third Party SIGINT Partnership

Title

NSA's Oldest Third Party SIGINT Partnership

Subject

CCP - Consolidated Cryptologic Program

Description

This document is a NSA release detailing the history and current partnership between Turkish and U.S intelligence operations. Intelligence sharing began in 1949 between the CIA and the Turkish Electronic and Technical Intelligence (ETI) and has contined with the NSA. The NSA trades SIGINT on a various military and terrorism targets in exchange for information on Russia, shipping traffic and radar signitures ("under the SEA SENTRY program"), as well as having a "dedicated circuit for CT [Counterterrorism] analytic exchanges."

Creator

National Security Agency - Country Desk Officer (CDO) Turkey

Publisher

Der Spiegel

Relation

Snowden

Language

en

Date:Created

2005-10-07

Source:Classification

Top Secret

Source:Redactions

Information owner redacted

Report:Creator

Marcel Rosenbach

NumPages

2

CreatorOffice

CDO

Date:Leaked

2014-08-31

Distribution

5VEY

Surveillance Programs

SEA SENTRY ; SIGINT

Collection

Snowden Files

Citation

National Security Agency - Country Desk Officer (CDO) Turkey, “NSA's Oldest Third Party SIGINT Partnership,” Snowden Archive, accessed December 23, 2024, https://snowden.glendon.yorku.ca/items/show/403.

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