Showing posts with label Tradecraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tradecraft. Show all posts

Monday, July 20, 2015


''Terminate, with extreme prejudice''


''SAIGON. - In a nondescript white concrete-block building on the outskirts of this capital city, an International Business Machines Corp. Model 1430 computer runs 24 hours a day grinding out one of this war-torn country's most valuable products: Military intelligence. The building houses one of four intelligence centers scattered around Saigon. Using automatic data processing equipment, this intelligence setup - the biggest operated by the United States outside Washington and the biggest ever used against a single enemy - is now handling a massive assortment of facts and figures aimed at winning the Vietnam war. More than 100,000 separate items are being added to the system's computerized files each month; a 60-ton haul of enemy documents seized last January is still yielding valuable information. Tens of thousands of IBM punch cards help keep tabs on the foe; they bear detailed identification of captured Communists and Vietcong suspects.''

COMPUTERIZED INTELLIGENCE NETWORK IN SOUTH VIETNAM 
Computers and Automation 1967/08 page 34

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_computersA_7199056

Tuesday, March 31, 2015


 ''Whose Shoulder are You Looking Over Anyway?''



Document leaked to the press in 2012 outlining the N.S.A.signal intelligence program.
  1. "Revolutionize analysis – fundamentally shift our analytic approach from a production to a discovery bias, enriched by innovative customer/partner engagement, radically increasing operational impact across all mission domains."
  2. "Fully leverage internal and external NSA partnerships to collaboratively discover targets, find their vulnerabilities, and overcome their network/communication defenses."
  3. "Dynamically integrate endpoint, midpoint, industrial-enabled, and cryptanalytic capabilities to reach previously inaccessible targets in support of exploitation, cyber defense, and cyber operations."
SIGINT Strategy Document (N.S.A. 2012)

https://archive.org/details/NSA-SIGINT-Strategy

Monday, March 2, 2015


''Hearts and minds''



Manual published by the Central Intelligence Agency that was distributed in Nicaragua in the early 1980s.

PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS IN GUERRILLA WARFARE (1981)

https://archive.org/details/PsychologicalOperationsInGuerrillaWarfare

Sunday, February 15, 2015


''Four-one-one, may we help you?''


''...(C)omputers, BBS's, the telephone company, arcade games, radio equipment, general electronic equipment, cable and other utility companies and anything/everything nobody else wants to talk about...''

Blacklisted! 411 Magazine

https://archive.org/details/blacklisted411

Sunday, February 8, 2015

''2345 3487 3454 3455 4867 3465 4965 3452....''




Published by the N.S.A. from 1974 to 1997 - "A mix of technical, expository, philosophical, futuristic, argumentative and historical articles - with a light touch here and there - there's always an article or two to engage the reader." 

Cryptolog Technical Journal (N.S.A. 1974-1997 136 issues)

https://archive.org/details/nsacryptolog

Wednesday, January 28, 2015


''If he blows his cover he might blow the lid
  So he stays in the shadows like he always did...''



Published January 17, 1944- "This information is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it...''

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Office Of Strategic Services,1944)

https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManualStrategicServicesProvisional

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

''Whisky Tango Romeo veintiuno...'' 

                                       


''Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers Stations, known as a one time pad is unbreakable. Combine this with the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is.''



The Conet Project (IRDIAL Records, 1997)

https://archive.org/details/ird059