NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
Resources from the Federation of American Scientists
- The National Security Agency Enterprise (redacted), DoD Inspector General report, December 19, 2017
- Semi-Annual Reports of the NSA Office of Inspector General
- Journal of Sensitive Cyber Research and Engineering (JSCoRE) Tables of Contents (redacted) 2013-2015
- Finding Aid: NSA Scientific and Technical Information (STINFO) Collection, Pre-1965, list of boxes and folders in NARA collection, declassified August 2017 (XLS version)
- NSA/CSS Classification Guide, NSA/CSS Policy Manual 1-52, 30 September 2013, revised 2 June 2015
- Final Environmental Impact Statement for the East Campus Integration Program, Fort Meade, Maryland, March 2017 (large pdf file)
- Transparency Report: THE USA FREEDOM Act Business Records FISA Implementation, NSA Civil Liberties and Privacy Office, January 15, 2016
- NSA Procedures Under Presidential Policy Directive 28, Section 4, January 2015
- NSA's Civil Liberties and Privacy Protections for Targeted SIGINT Activities Under Executive Order 12333, NSA Director of Civil Liberties and Privacy Office Report, October 7, 2014
- Report of the National Security Agency Texas Cryptologic Center Construction Project, DoD Inspector General Report No. 11-INTEL-02, December 3, 2010
- NSA's Implementation of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702, NSA Director of Civil Liberties and Privacy Office Report, April 16, 2014
- Bulk Collection of Telephony Metadata Under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, Administration White Paper, August 9, 2013
- The National Security Agency: Missions, Authorities, Oversight and Partnerships, August 9, 2013
- It Wasn't All Magic: The Early Struggle to Automate Cryptanalysis, 1930s-1960s by Colin B. Burke, Center for Cryptologic History, 2002 (40 MB PDF file)
- Maybe You Had to Be There: The SIGINT on Thirteen Soviet Shootdowns of U.S. Reconnaissance Aircraft by Michael L. Peterson, Cryptologic Quarterly, Summer 1993, Vol. 12, No. 2 (declassified version)
- NSA/CSS Records Management Program, 16 December 2010
- Review of NSA/CSS Information for Public Dissemination, NSA/CSS Policy 1-30, 15 December 2004, revised 9 January 2012
- Requirements for the TRAILBLAZER and THINTHREAD Systems (redacted), DoD Inspector General Report 05-INTEL-03, December 15, 2004
- Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure, April 2011
- NSACSS Strategy (brochure), June 2010
- NSA National Environmental Policy Act Procedures
- Environmental Impact Statement Addressing Campus Development at Fort George G. Meade, MD (draft), July 2010 (27 MB PDF file)
- Final Environmental Impact Statement, Future Development and Operations, Fort George G. Meade, MD, June 2001 (18 MB PDF file) with Appendices (11 MB)
- Cryptographic Key Management Workshop Summary -- June 8-9, 2009, National Institute of Standards and Technology, January 2010
- Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Utilities Upgrade Project at Fort Meade, NSA, January 2009
- A Brief History of Communications Intelligence in the United States by Laurance F. Safford, Captain, USN (Ret.), March 1952 (complete text, released 2009) (as redacted, 2005)
- Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the Indochina War, 1945-1975 by Robert J. Hanyok, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2002
- NSA Acquisition Resource Center, May 2007
- NSA Cryptologic Almanac 50th Anniversary Series
- Reporting Unauthorized Media Disclosures of Classified NSA/CSS Information, NSA/CSS Policy 1-27, 20 March 2006
- Remarks of Gen. Michael V. Hayden, at the National Press Club, January 23, 2006
- Legal Authorities Supporting the Activities of the National Security Agency Described by the President, Department of Justice White Paper, January 19, 2006
- NSA/CSS Declassification Plan, January 5, 2006
- National Security Agency official homepage
- National Cryptologic Strategy for the 21st Century
- The Quest for Cryptologic Centralization and the Establishment of NSA: 1940-1952, Center for Cryptologic History, 2005 (6.5 MB PDF file)
- On the Secrecy of NSA Records on UFOs (Redacted), In Camera Affivit of Eugene F. Yeates, Citizens Against UFO Secrecy v. NSA, October 9, 1980
- NSA Announces Release of Documents on the U.S.S. Liberty, July 2, 2003
- Audit Oversight: Review of the Quality Control System at the National Security Agency Inspector General Office of Audits, DoD Inspector General, March 13, 2003
- Review of NSA Ethics Program (2003), Office of Government Ethics, March 10, 2003
- Review of NSA Ethics Program (1995), Office of Government Ethics, October 13, 1995
- NSA's Central Security Service, by Keith P. Clive, excerpted from Cryptologia, April 2002
- The National Security Agency: Issues for Congress, Congressional Research Service report, January 16, 2001
- External Team Report A Management Review for the Director, NSA
October 22, 1999 (Released October 17, 2000) (2.7 MB PDF file)
- New Enterprise Team (NETeam) Recommendations The Director's Work Plan for Change
October 1, 1999 (Released October 17, 2000) (PDF file)
- Final Report on the Verification Inspection of the National Security Agency
INSPECTOR GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Report No. IR96-03 - February 13, 1996
- U.S. Intelligence Agencies
- NSA Rainbow Series and related documents
- The National Security Agency Declassified A National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book by Jeffrey T. Richelson assisted by Michael L. Evans
- Johnny Cash and the NSA, letter from Rep. E.C. Gathings, May 11, 1954
- Selected NSA Newsletters (courtesy of the James Madison Project)
https://irp.fas.org/nsa/
Created by John Pike
Maintained by Steven Aftergood
Updated May 29, 2021
