[…] as encryption, to mitigate the threat of economic espionage; 2) the development of cryptographic standards for the protection of sensitive unclassified information, and the policies of the NSA, DoD, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Dept of Commerce regarding the selection of federal cryptographic standards; 3) the roles and policies of the […]
[…] They had done their homework on Puthoff’s background, his work as an Officer of Naval Intelligence, and then as a civilian with the National Security Agency ( NSA) a few years before. Puthoff was told that there was increasing concern in the CIA about Soviet parapsychology efforts and its KGB, GRU funding. Since parapsychology […]
[…] there is to be had from the killing of more than a million Afghanis. (3) Bamford spends much less time on the run-up to 9-11. With his NSA sources (he wrote The Puzzle Palace about the NSA), he emphasises the technical difficulties involved in tracking and intercepting people who are using digital communications, and […]
[PDF file]: Facilitating Tyranny? Glenn Greenwald and the creation of the NSA’s ‘Panopticon’ Citizenseven No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State Glenn Greenwald London: Hamish Hamilton, 2014 Since becoming the conduit for the trove of classified documents from former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, Greenwald’s public profile has increased […]
[…] Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency; and retired Rear Admiral Shapiro, former head of the Office of Naval Intelligence. As a former NSA head, Inman’s evidence in particular is quite a coup. For if any state agency in the U.S. could be presumed to know about alien landings etc., […]
McKinney/Africa/covert action Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand Red spiels The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted […]
[…] not seem to have occurred to Kinnock and co. that every phone within a mile of Wright and his legal team was tapped of course, and the NSA had their resources on the case. The information about the call from Kinnock’s office was duly passed – presumably from the NSA via GCHQ – to […]
[…] network) provided the Americans with intelligence up to 1975, long after Harold Wilson had – publicly at least – expressed his Government’s opposition to the war. The NSA co-ordinated all signals intelligence in SE Asia, and Little Sai Wan was linked to this operation. Its intercepts of North Vietnamese military traffic were used by […]
[…] confirmed years later in Alvin Snyder’s 1995 book, Warriors of Disinformation), that the first official transcript of Soviet air-to-ground communications distributed by our National Security Agency ( NSA) had been purged of the Soviet fighter pilot’s declaration to his controller, ‘Now I will try my cannons .’ Axed also by our NSA, according to […]
[…] neglected provenance in the administration of Lyndon Johnson. The crippling of the 455-foot USS Liberty, a SIGINT intelligence vessel run jointly by the US navy and the NSA, in a sustained two hour attack by Israeli bombers and torpedo craft at the height of the 1967 Middle East war, is still regarded as a […]
