1985 - Jeffrey T. Richelson and Desmond Ball bring out The Ties That Bind: Intelligence Cooperation Between the UKUSA Countries
The Ties That Bind: Intelligence Cooperation Between the United Kingdom/United States of America Countries - United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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1983 - James Bamford publishes The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency
Public Law 86-36 had served as a useful barrier against this type of research, but Bamford proved to be cleverer than others. He began with a barrage of requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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1982 - A Federal appeals court has ruled that the National Security Agency may lawfully intercept messages between United States
citizens and people overseas even if there is no cause to believe they Americans are foreign agents, and then provide summaries of these messages to the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1978/79 - American Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a law that permits secret buggings and wiretaps of individuals
suspected of being agents of a hostile foreign government or international terrorist organization.
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1976 - Duncan Campbell published an article in Time Out - "The Eavesdroppers" which was a description of GCHQ
Duncan Campbell published an article in Time Out called "The Eavesdroppers" which was a description of what GCHQ was and did. From that time on Campbell published many articles concerning illiegal communication interception done by the secret services.
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1972 - Scope of NSA's SIGINT activities was redefined in CI and EI and CS
Scope of NSA's SIGINT activities was redefined in Communication Intelligence and Electronic Intelligence and Communication Security (In the 80s the term changed to Information Security).
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1961 - Establishment of the National Reconnaissance Office NRO as a joint Air Force and CIA operation
It designs, builds, and operates the spy satellites of the US, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT), imagery intelligence (IMINT), measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT)
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1957 - Official acknowledgement of NSA in the Government Organization Manual
The Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, also includes information on quasi-official agencies; international organizations
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1954 - The WS-117L program (for the development of reconnaissance satellites for the AirForce an CIA) was approved by Eisenhower
The WS-117L program (for the development of reconnaissance satellites for the AirForce an CIA) was approved by President Eisenhower. It also included the development of signal intercept equipment within the framework of the project Pioneer Ferret
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1952 - President Truman sent out a top secret memorandum to abolish the AFSA and to create the National Security Agency NSA
The main focuses lied on: control, coordination, collection and processing of Communication Intelligence. The NSA was considered to be within, but not a part of the Department of Defense.
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1949 - the Armed Forces Security Agency
Establishment of(AFSA) to direct communications intelligence and electronic intelligence activities of the military service signals units (ASA, NSG, AFSS)
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1948 - Formalization of UKUSA agreement
is a multilateral agreement for cooperation in signals intelligence between the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The alliance of intelligence operations is also known as Five Eyes
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