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(S) Want to Help Select SIGINT for the President?
FROM:
Chief, Cryptologic Services Group, CIA (F52)
Run Date: 11/10/2004
(S) Are you interested in being on the front line for selecting SIGINT to brief the President, his
Cabinet, and Intelligence Community officials? If so, then do two things. First, check the field
vacancy announcements on Monday to learn about current job openings at CSG CIA. Then, plan
to attend a brown-bag session on Tuesday, 16 November from 1200-1300 in 2N007.
During that session, I will provide more information and answer your questions about
assignment at CSG CIA.
(S) Working as NSA's representative in the DCI Operations Center (where the CSG is located) is
definitely interesting. Just two weeks ago, I briefed the newly-appointed DCI on how the
Intelligence Community's CRITIC program works (following some excellent GRSOC* CRITIC
reporting). During that exchange of information, Mr. Goss asked me, "Does the President have
this information?" After assuring him that the President was informed, I thought to myself:
"Wow...this is definitely work supporting the very top of the government!"
(S) Our big responsibility here in the CSG is to support the Presidential briefers. We select the
SIGINT each day that meets their reporting thresholds for briefing their principals. We have an
intimate, constructive relationship with the briefers, and they make us proud each day by telling
us that SIGINT is often the best intelligence that is shown to the President -- at home or on the
road -- as well as to the Secretary of Defense, State, the National Security Advisor, and other
Cabinet-level officials. We also brief senior DCI officials, to include the A/DCI for Collection, the
National Intelligence Council Chairman, and officials from CIA's Office of Collection Strategies
and Analysis.
(U//FOUO) CIA also has some very interesting people that come through the Operations Center.
In just the last month, baseball star Cal Ripken Jr. and movie celebrity Robert DeNiro were both
here -- at our desk -- receiving an unclassified view of how the DCI directs Intelligence
Community operations.
(U) At the end of the day, however, the real benefit to being part of the CSG CIA is knowing
that you are on the intel front line -- and that's incredibly rewarding. Please review the vacancy
announcements, and I'll see you at the brown bag on Tuesday!
(U) Kryptos sculpture in the CIA courtyard
*(U) Notes:
GRSOC = Ft Gordon Regional Security Operations Center
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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