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Coming Soon to Mailboxes: New Government Travel Charge Cards

SUMMARY

Bank of America will issue new credit cards to NSA employees to be used for work travel. 

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Dec 08, 2005

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Mar 01, 2018

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DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U) Coming Soon to Mailboxes: New Government Travel Charge Cards FROM: SID Travel Office (S02S2) Run Date: 12/08/2005 (C) Bank of America will issue new government travel charge cards to all open and active account holders during the next couple of weeks. These cards will be issued via U.S. Postal System to the account holder's home address. New cards will be mailed in a plain white envelope; please do not discard them as junk mail. The cards are silver in color and will be annotated with the statement "BUSINESS CARD." Account numbers start with the numbers (U) This new card replaces the existing brown-colored government plastic that states "FOR OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT TRAVEL ONLY." The account number and expiration date will remain the same. (C) For activation of this new card, you will need to call the 1-800 number on the sticky label located on the front of the card. We maintain a cover with Bank of America; you are known in their databases as account holder. When speaking to a Bank of America representative, do not state that you are an NSA employee. If you are asked for a work telephone number please provide them with the following cover phone number: DO NOT provide them with an NSA phone exchange of or (U) Once your new card has been received and activated, please destroy the brown-colored card by cutting it into small pieces or disposing of it through a shredder. (U//FOUO) For additional questions please contact the SID Travel Office on "(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)." DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL DERIVED FROM: NSA/CSSM 1-52, DATED 08 JAN 2007 DECLASSIFY ON: 20320108