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(TS//SI) 'Foreign Releases' Pay Off in War on Terrorism
FROM:
Chief, Consumer Services (S12C)
Run Date: 02/22/2006
(TS//SI) The case-by-case release of US SIGINT-derived info to foreign governments has led to
the capture of terrorists abroad.
(C) Sometimes NSA's customers come across information in a SIGINT report that they'd very
much like to share with another country's liaison officials or intelligence service. Usually this
occurs when the US and the foreign government are cooperating on some mutually beneficial
activity, and the SIGINT information can advance the cause. A mechanism is in place for such a
scenario: the "foreign release" process. This passing of information can be a major boost to
advancing US interests, as shown by the below note sent from an NSA employee in Iraq to the
office at NSA that handles foreign releases (S12C3):
"(TS//SI) FORRELs [foreign releases] for a large part are taken as routine, [but]
here in Iraq they are some of the most important work we do, especially for the
JIATF-W*. Our main focus is the foreign fighter facilitation networks outside
Iraq that are funneling people in. We have built a good relationship with other
countries that have quietly, off the radar, joined the fight. The information we
provide is actioned on a regular basis by foreign governments and even though it
is not reported in the press at home, if you read FBIS* and see people being
arrested in Algiers, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and other countries, it is
because of the efforts from you to get the FORRELS out to those
countries. As written in previous email, sometimes we don't take the time to go
back and share that information, as sometimes we don't know it until weeks later
and have moved on to another fight, so again thanks for all your support and for
all you do.
(U) WE ARE WINNING, one bad guy at a time!!!!!!!!!"
--
JIATF-W NSA Officer-in-Charge, Iraq
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without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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