Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency (120 page)

479 live room: Tom Bowman and
Scott Shane, "Espionage from the Front Lines,"
Baltimore Sun
(special
series, December 3—5, 1995).

479  "Sometimes that's a very
small antenna": "Spy Machines,"
Nova
(PBS, 1987).

480  "in motion" ..,
"at rest": interviews with senior intelligence officials.

480 first transatlantic intercept
station: See James Bamford,
The Puzzle Palace: A Report on NSA, America's
Most Secret Agency
(Boston: Hough ton Mifflin, 1982), pp. 155-56.

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481 fifty buildings: NSA, Dana
Roscoe, "NSA Hosts Special Partnership Breakfast,"
NSAN
(January
2000), p. 4.

481 more than $500 million:
Baltimore/Washington
Corridor Chambergram
(March 1989), p. 1.

481 1.5 million square feet: Vice
Admiral William Studeman, Address to the Baltimore/Washington Corridor Chamber
of Commerce (June 29, 1990).

481 $152.8 million more: NSA,
"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About NSA but Were Afraid to
Ask,"
NSAN
(July 1994), p. 9.

481 "Were we a corporate
company": NSA, videotape, "A Conversation Between Deputy Director for
Support Services Terry Thompson and the NSA Technical Work Force"
(September 30, 1999).

481  NSA's overall budget: These
figures were the result of a slip accidentally included in Part Three of the
Senate defense appropriations subcommittee's fiscal 1994 hearing volumes.

482  approximately 38,000 people:
This figure is an extrapolation from a chart, "Relative Personnel and
Funding Sizes of Major Intelligence Agencies," contained in the report
"Preparing for the 21st Century: An Appraisal of U.S. Intelligence"
(March 1, 1996), p. 132. The report was prepared by the Commission on the Roles
and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

482 secret city's own cops: Until
1986 the city was protected by the General Services Administration's Federal
Protective Service. That year the GSA delegated protection authority to the
director of NSA.

482 3,850 miles each month: NSA,
T. C. Carrington and Debra L. Z. Potts, "Protective Services—More Than
Meets the Eye,"
NSAN
(September 1999), pp. 8-10.

482 Emergency Response: NSA,
Andrew Plitt, "Emergency! Emergency!"
NSAN
(September 1991),
pp. 8-9.

482 Emergency Reaction Team: NSA,
"Here Come the Men in Black,"
NSAN
(June 1999), p. 4.

482 Executive Protection Unit:
Carrington and Potts, "Protective Services—More Than Meets the Eye."

482  $4 million screening center:
Tanya Jones, "NSA, Fort Meade Await Federal Building Funds,"
Baltimore
Sun,
July 24, 1997.

483  Explosive Detection Canine
Unit: NSA, "NSA's Anti-Terrorism Security Measures,"
NSAN
(February
1999), p. 4.

483 monthly electric bill: NSA,
"The National Security Agency: Facts & Figures" (1999). NSA pays
more than $21 million a year to the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company.

483 243,000 pounds: Some of the
statistics in this paragraph are from Vice Admiral William Studeman's Address
to the Baltimore/Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce (June 29, 1990).

483 fire department: NSA,
"Fire Prevention Week,
NSAN
(January 2000), p. 11.

483  blood donor program: NSA,
"Work/Life Services" (1999). Also NSA, Dana Roscoe, "NSA Hosts
Special Partnership Breakfast." Laura Sullivan, "Secret Spy Agency
Puts on Human Face,"
Baltimore Sun,
March 21, 2000.

484 
Pathfinder and
ToukiBouki.-
NSA,
NSAN
(June 1997), p. 12.

484
My tillage at Sunset
NSA,
"CLA Film Festival,"
NSAN (May
1999), p. 5. 484 Wolof: NSA's
keen interest in Wolof likely stems in part from Mauritania's

support of Saddam Hussein in
Desert Storm. In particular, Saddam sent his

wife and other relatives to
Mauritania for protection. 484
WendKuuni:
NSA, "September Film
Festival,"
NSAN
(September 1999), p. 12.

484
Harvest: 3000 Years:
NSA,
"March CLA 1998 Film Series 'Africa-Asia Month,' "
NSAN
(March
1998), p. 12.

484
A Mongolian Tale:
NSA,
"May CLA Film Festival 2000,"
NSAN (May
2000), p. 11.

484 more than 105 films in 48
foreign languages: NSA, "CLA Film Library Acquisitions,"
NSAN
(August
1999), p. 12.

484 its own ticket agency:
Baltimore/Washington
Corridor Chambergram
(March 1989), p. 1.

484 twentieth largest in the
country: Vice Admiral William Studeman, Address to the Baltimore/Washington
Corridor Chamber of Commerce (June 29, 1990).

484  Children's World: NSA, 
"Child Care: NSA, the New National Priorities,"
NSAN (Inly
1998),
pp. 8-10.

485  "a lot of junk food
addicts": NSA, Sherry Copeland, "A Look 'Lnside' NSA's
Drugstore,"
NSAN
(December 1999), pp. 4-5.

485 Arundel Yacht Club: NSA, Club
Notes,
NSAN (May
2000), p. 16.

485 More than 3,200 employees:
NSA, "NSA's Civilian Welfare Fund,"
NSAN
(December 1998), p.
10.

485 Family Historians Genealogy
Club: NSA, "Family Historians Genealogy Club,"
NSAN
(February
1999), p. 7.

485
Sex Hormones vs. GS
Ratings:
NSA,
NSAN
(August 1996), p. 12.

485  Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual
Employees (GLOBE): NSA, Club Notes,
NSAN
(February 2000), p. 12.

486  "All American
Festival": NSA, " 'Agency Ail-American Festival' Schedule of
Events,"
NSAN (June
2000), pp. 10-11.

486 "For many years":
ibid.

486 eleven cafeterias: NSA,
NSAN
(June 1998), p. 11.

486  on December 13: NSA,
NSAN
(February
1994), p. 3.

487  food sales totaled: NSA,
NSAN
(November
1994) p. 4.

487 SHAPE: NSA,
NSAN (August
1993),
p. 10; NSA, "SHAPE—Your New Year's Resolution Solution,"
NSAN
(January
1998), p. 12; NSA,
NSAN
(December 1998), p. 5; NSA, "Work/Life
Services" (1999).

487  Learned Organizations: NSA
Crypto-Linguistic Association brochure (February 1973).

488  "Accumulated along every
hallway":  NSA, Action Line,  "Trapped Down Under,"
NSAN
(April
1995), p. 12.

488 burned-out car: NSA, Action
Line, "Let's Talk Trash,"
NSAN (August
1999), p. 12.

488 "If I use the south
tunnel": NSA, Action Line, "Dark Tunnels and Deserted
Stairwells,"
NSAN
(April 1994), p. 11.

488 the real building: NSA,
"On a Clear Day You Can See the Washington Monument?"
NSAN
(April
1984), pp. 4-5.

488 shielding technique is used
throughout much of the city: Barton Reppert, Associated Press, "
'Electromagnetic Envelope' for NSA,"
Washington Post,
March 30,
1984.

490 "NSOC": personal
observation.

490 Operation Silkworth:
"Silkworth Security Guidelines," in
United States of America ex
ret Margaret A. Newsham and Martin Overbeek Bloem v. Lockheed Missiles and
Space, Inc.,
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Civil
Act. No. C88-20009.

490 red badge: interview with
former NSA official.

490 "clearance status not
indicated": ibid.

490 "After you leave an NSA
installation": NSA, For Official Use Only, "NSA Employee
Handbook."

490 Visitor Control Center:
personal observations.

490 "sinister talons":
NSA, "The National Security Agency Insignia."

490  Aperiodic Inspection Team:
NSA, "Protective Services Celebrates 10th Anniversary,"
NSAN
(October
1996), pp. 8-9.

491   "Furby Alert":
Vernon Loeb, "A Toy Story of Hairy Espionage,"
Washington
Post,
January 13, 1999.

491  "No Classified
Talk!": Personal observations.

491   14,000 security posters:
NSA, Action Line,
NSAN
(January 1991), p. 11.

492  On the very day: ibid. 492
"a not-too-subtle": ibid.

492 "must find them
surreal": NSA, Action Line,
NSAN
(June 1991) p. 11.

492  "If Cal's
identified": Tony Capaccio, "Ripken in a Matter of National
Security,"
USA Today,
June 6, 1996.

493  "Members of the
SSOC": NSA, "Protesters at NSA on the 4th of July,"
The
Communicator
(August 27, 1996).

494  "an unequivocal
success": ibid. 494 "Very efficient": ibid.

494 National Cryptologic Memorial
Wall: NSA, Picture This,
NSAN (July
1996), p. 7; NSA, "NSA/CSS
Memorial Day Observance,"
NSAN
(July 1997), p. 12.

494  "I drive myself":
Interview with Lieutenant General Michael V. Hayden (February 2, 2000).

495  his corner office: personal
observations during several visits in 2000.

496  "When I've talked":
Hayden interview (February 2, 2000).

498 "in consonance":
NSA, For Official Use Only, NSA/CSS Regulation No. 10-11, "Release of
Unclassified NSA/CSS Information," Annex B (June 16, 1987), p. H-2.

498  his own
"ambassadors": ibid., p. B-3.

499  United States Signals
Intelligence Directives: Until 1957 it was known as the Manual of U.S. Sigint
Operations (MUSSO). NSA, Top Secret/Codeword, Oral History of Herbert L. Conley
(March 5, 1984), p. 87.

499 "pursuing an area":
This and the information about Taylor's background come from NSA, "The
Newest SALT Members,"
The Communicator
(April 9, 1996).

499 "Operations encompasses
all the activities": NSA, Linda Lewis, "DO and DT Focus Days,"
NSAN
(January 2000), p. 2.

500  Tiiu Kera: U.S. Air Force,
biography of Major General Tiiu Kera (March 1999).

501  "leadership and
management of a newly formed organization": "DOD Distinguished
Civilian Service Awards Presented,"
Regulatory Intelligence Data
(November
4, 1999).

501 NSOC: personal observation
during visit in April 2000.

501  USS
Cole:
interview
with senior NSA official.

502  Worldwide Video
Teleconferencing Center:  NSA,  "Across the World—By Video
Teleconferencing,"
NSAN
(September 1998), pp. 4-5.

502 the organization's seal: NSA,
"Celebrating a Quarter Century,"
NSAN
(July 1989), p. 7.

502  "You didn't want
NORAD": interview with Lieutenant General Daniel O. Graham (December
1984).

503  "initial analysis and
reporting": NSA, "DEFSMAC Dedication,""Director's Talking
Points" (April 7, 1998).

503 more than doubled:
"DEFSMAC: A Quiet Hero in Anti-Proliferation Fight,"
Intelligence
Newsletter
(November 26, 1998).

503 "It has all the inputs
from all the assets": Harvard University, Center for Information Policy
Research, Program on Information Resources Policy, Seminar on Command, Control,
Communications and Intelligence (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
1980), Raymond T. Tate lecture, p. 30.

503 "DEFSMAC not only
detects": interview with former NSA official.

503 "the .. . premier":
NSA, Chary Izquierdo, welcoming remarks at DEFSMAC Dedication Ceremony (April
7, 1998).

503  Topol-M single-warhead: David
Hoffman, "Russian Rocket Explodes in Test,"
Washington Post,
October
24, 1998. See also Sid Balman, Jr., "U.S. Sees More Iranian Tests," UPI
(July 23, 1998).

504  DEFSMAC officials would
immediately have sent: NSA, Chary Izquierdo, welcoming remarks at DEFSMAC
Dedication Ceremony (April 7, 1998).

504 DIA Alert Center: This is a
twenty-four-hour-a-day indications and warning center, responsible for
providing time-sensitive intelligence to the secretary of defense, the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and others.

504  National Telemetry Processing
Center: For the information in this paragraph, I have drawn on NSA, telemetry
display, NSA Cryptologic Museum.

505  mobile medical center: NSA,
"OHESS Is Going Mobile ... AgainI"
NSAN
(August 1999), pp.
4-5.

505 Oilstock: NSA, "The Docent
Book" (January 1996), p. 26. 505 Main Library: NSA, Ann Bubeck,
"NSA/CSS Libraries—'Putting Knowledge to Work,' "
NSAN
(April
1997), pp. 4-5.

505  "an astounding record of
successful operations": "DOD Distinguished Civilian Service Awards
Presented,"
Regulatory Intelligence Data
(November 4, 1999).

506  "With today's rapidly
evolving": NSA telemetry display, NSA Cryptologic Museum.

506 "Consider that hundreds
or thousands of channels": NSA, "Career Opportunities in Signals
Analysis" (2000).

506 "Demodulating and
unraveling the internal structure": ibid. 506
"extremely
sensitive":
NSA, security handout, "NSA Security 'Seal' of
Approval" (July 1987).

506  "completely by a black
cloth": ibid.

507  "The Malfunctioning
Santallite": NSA, "CWF Holiday Door Decorating Contest,"
NSAN
(February 2000), p. 16.

507 "Using biometrics for
identifying and authenticating": Gerald Lazar, "Agencies Scan
Biometrics for Potential Applications,"
Federal Computer Week
(January
20, 1997).