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                Date: 1999-01-12
                 
                 
                NSA von innen
                
                 
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      Dieses Exzerpt aus dem New Yorker, Ausgabe 18. Januar  
[sic] ist wie alle Informationen über das Innenleben der  
National Security Agency ein Blick in die Vergangenheit. So  
ging es vor 1985 zu, als man sich noch mit analogen  
Radiosignalen herumschlagen musste, anstatt mit digitalen  
Netzwerkprotokollen wie heutzutag. 
Die Rolle der Bibel spielte das Buch RASIN, 10 heillos dicke  
Bände Radio Signal Notations. 
 
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Seymour Hersh reports on NSA means and methods stolen  
by Jonathan Pollard for the Israelis in the January 18 issue of  
The New Yorker: 
 
The data passed along by Pollard included detailed  
information on the various platforms -- in the air, on land, and  
at sea -- used by military components of the National  
Security Agency to intercept Israeli military, commercial, and  
diplomatic communications. At the time of Pollard's spying,  
select groups of American sailors and soldiers trained in  
Hebrew were stationed at an N.S.A. listening post near  
Harrogate, England, and at a specially constructed facility  
inside the American Embassy in Tel Aviv, where they  
intercepted and translated Israeli signals. Other interceptions  
came from an unmanned N.S.A. listening post in Cyprus. 
... 
The men and women of the National Security Agency live in a  
world of chaotic bleeps, buzzes, and whistles, and talk to  
each other about frequencies, spectrums, modulation, and  
bandwidth -- the stuff of Tom Clancy novels. They often deal  
with signals intelligence, or SIGINT, and their world is kept in  
order by an in-house manual known as the RASIN an  
acronym for radio-signal notations. The manual, which is  
classified "top-secret Umbra," fills ten volumes, is constantly  
updated, and lists the physical parameters of every known  
signal. Pollard took it all. "It's the Bible," one former  
communications-intelligence officer told me. "It tells how we  
collect signals anywhere in the world." The site, frequency,  
and significant features of Israeli communications -- those  
that were known and targeted by the N.S.A. -- were in the  
RASIN; so were all the known communications links used by  
the Soviet Union. 
... 
The ten volumes of the RASIN were available on a need-to- 
know basis inside the N.S.A. "I've never seen the monster," a  
former senior watch officer at an N.S.A. intercept site in  
Europe told me, but added that he did supervise people who  
constantly used it, and he described its function in easy-to- 
understand terms: "It is a complete catalogue of what the  
United States was listening to, or could listen to --  
information referred to in the N.S.A. as 'parametric data.' It  
tells you everything you want to know about a particular  
signal -- when it was first detected and where, whom it was  
first used by, what kind of entity, frequency, wavelength, or  
band length it has. When you've copied a signal and don't  
know what it is, the RASIN manual gives you a description." 
 
full text 
http://jya.com/traitor.htm
                   
 
relayed by John Young 
 
 
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