"We Know Nothing." NSA on the Paeterus Resignation

The day of David Paeterus’ resignation, FOIA requests were submitted to various intelligence agencies seeking their records regarding his decision.  The National Security Agency was the first to response with a “no records response. In addition to claiming to have zero records regarding the matter, the National Security Agency went on record to explain that having such records is not within the scope of their mission which “are set at the highest level of government”.

The 2013 Center for Cryptologic History Calendar

Yesterday, I posted a copy of the Center for Cryptologic History’s official 2012 calendar. Today, I post the print-version of the official 2013 Center for Cryptologic History’s. With regard to historical tidbits, trivia, and factoids, there is almost complete overlap between the 2012 and 2013 calendars. However, the 2013 calendar has an entirely new set of pictures.  

It seems that David Kahn has been promoted to “noted cryptologic historian” for the 2013 calendar year.  This promotion further serves as evidence of domestication of David Kahn. In the 1960s, Kahn wrote Code Breakers and defied demands by the NSA to redact information from his book by secreting away the footnotes to the information the NSA demanded be removed.  Now, the NSA owns his private collection and calls him a “noted cryptologic historian’.

2013 CCH Calender

The 2012 Center for Cryptologic History Calendar

It seems a little late in the year for a 2012 calendar to be of much use, however the Center for Cryptologic History's 2012 calendar will be good for years to come. The calendar is filled with rare pictures about the NSA and is positively brimming with historical facts relating to the NSA, SIGINT, COMINT, and Cryptologic history to list just a few topics. 

2012 CCH Calendar

NSA Releases Cryptologic Quarterly Index

In response to a FOIA request, the National Security Agency has released an index of its Cryptologic Quarterly articles from the 1980s through 2010. Covering topics from "Applied Wavelet Analysis to the Zimmerman Telegram, the index provides a glimpse into the academic and intellectual activities of the NSA staff. 

The index, alphabetized by title has largely been declassified and there minimum redactions to titles or the keyword index with only a small percentage of the titles withheld in their entirety. The NSA, however, invoked the b(3) exemption so most of the authors are unknown. Those authors whose identities were revealed are mostly associated with the Center for Cryptologic History though some were written by prominent NSA figures such as Frank B. Rowlett, Howard H. Campaigne, and former DIRNSA William Studeman.

Cryptologic Quarterly Article List

NSA Releases Complete Listing of Closed IG Complaints

In response to a FOIA request, the National Security Agency has released a listing of all its closed Inspector General (IG) investigations.  

The listing is detail sparse, providing only a few details such as the case number,  the date closed, a generic description of the subject matter such as “Time, Attendance, and Pay," "Reprisal," and Miscellaneous." The list said to be all inclusive as stated in the FOIA request. This is a complete listing of closed IG complaints from 1995 to the summer of 2012. The list is organized by case number. The dating is a little disjointed, with the cases from 1995 to 1999 starting on page 20.

List of Closed NSA Inspector General Investigations