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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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