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The New Breed of SIGINT Reporting

SUMMARY

First Instance Reporting is a new type of reporting that allows “forward-deployed” signals intelligence personnel “to push information out much earlier in the production cycle.” So far, there have been 3,300 such reports, including information about the inspection of uranium processing activities in Iran, Russian government knowledge of a terrorist plot, and others.

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Oct 25, 2005

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Mar 01, 2018

TAGS

Iran, Pakistan, Russia