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The '''National Security Agency''' (NSA) is the United States's cryptologic and signals intelligence organization. An agency within the [[Department of Defense]], it is believed to be the largest U.S. government intelligence gathering agency.  
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[[File:National Security Agency seal.png|150px|thumbnail|Official seal]]
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The '''National Security Agency''' ('''NSA''') is a signals intelligence agency within the [[United States of America|United States]] [[Department of Defense]]. Its mission is to collect and analyze electronic signals intelligence of interest to the security of the United States and to protect all classified and sensitive information stored on government [[information technology]] equipment. In addition, the NSA supports and contributes to the civilian use of [[cryptography]] and advanced computer security measures.
  
Responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications, it coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to produce foreign signals intelligence information. This involves a significant amount of cryptanalysis. It's also responsible for protecting U.S. government information systems and communications from similar agencies elsewhere, which involves a significant amount of cryptography.
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The agency is headquartered at Fort George G. Meade, an active [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] installation in Anne Arundel County, [[Maryland]]. Approximately 30,000 people are employed worldwide by the agency. The size of the agency's budget is classified however its allocated resources are still subject to independent rigorous examination and approval processes.  
 
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Its eavesdropping mission includes radio broadcasting, both from various organizations and individuals, the Internet, telephone calls, and other intercepted forms of communication. Its secure communications mission includes military, diplomatic, and all other sensitive, confidential or secret government communications.
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NSA employs the country's premier codemakers and codebreakers. It is said to be the largest employer of mathematicians in the United States and perhaps the world. Its mathematicians contribute directly to the two missions of the Agency: designing cipher systems that will protect the integrity of U.S. information systems and searching for weaknesses in adversaries' systems and codes.
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The NSA was created by the National Security Act of 1947 and took effect on November 4, 1952, the same day as the presidential election, without media coverage or press release. It has had sixteen directors. The longest serving director was [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] General Michael Hayden who oversaw major management changes and later became the director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]].
  
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In 2013, the whistleblower [[Edward Snowden]] revealed that the NSA monitors and evaluates United States citizens, by means of [[PRISM]], electronic data.
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==Past NSA Sigint Operations==
 
==Past NSA Sigint Operations==
 
   
 
   
 
*[[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] shootdown incident. Here are the combined U.S. NSA electronic intercept and Russian Federation supplied military communications transcripts of the Soviet shootdown-in-process of Boeing 747 KAL 007 off Sakhalin Island on Sept. 1, 1983 - [http://www.rescue007.org/shootdown.htm]
 
*[[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] shootdown incident. Here are the combined U.S. NSA electronic intercept and Russian Federation supplied military communications transcripts of the Soviet shootdown-in-process of Boeing 747 KAL 007 off Sakhalin Island on Sept. 1, 1983 - [http://www.rescue007.org/shootdown.htm]
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==See also==
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* [[PRISM]] and [[Mass surveillance]] / [[Surveillance]]
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* [[CIA]]
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* [[Cold War]]
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* [[Espionage]]
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*[[Obamagate timeline]]
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
 
* [http://www.nsa.gov/ NSA official site]
 
* [http://www.nsa.gov/ NSA official site]
* [http://www.rescue007.org/ the website of the Committee for the Rescue of KAL 007 Survivors] For the crucial role of NSA in intercepts of shootdown and use of intercepts in following investigation
 
  
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[[Category:Privacy]]

Revision as of 07:46, April 27, 2017

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The National Security Agency (NSA) is a signals intelligence agency within the United States Department of Defense. Its mission is to collect and analyze electronic signals intelligence of interest to the security of the United States and to protect all classified and sensitive information stored on government information technology equipment. In addition, the NSA supports and contributes to the civilian use of cryptography and advanced computer security measures.

The agency is headquartered at Fort George G. Meade, an active U.S. Army installation in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Approximately 30,000 people are employed worldwide by the agency. The size of the agency's budget is classified however its allocated resources are still subject to independent rigorous examination and approval processes.

The NSA was created by the National Security Act of 1947 and took effect on November 4, 1952, the same day as the presidential election, without media coverage or press release. It has had sixteen directors. The longest serving director was U.S. Air Force General Michael Hayden who oversaw major management changes and later became the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

In 2013, the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA monitors and evaluates United States citizens, by means of PRISM, electronic data.

Past NSA Sigint Operations

  • Korean Airlines Flight 007 shootdown incident. Here are the combined U.S. NSA electronic intercept and Russian Federation supplied military communications transcripts of the Soviet shootdown-in-process of Boeing 747 KAL 007 off Sakhalin Island on Sept. 1, 1983 - [1]

See also

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