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(S//SI) Successful Installation of Equipment at Czech FORNSAT Sites
FROM:
FAD's Europe Office (DP11)
Run Date: 04/19/2006
(S//SI) In February 2006,
and
of the Exploitation Applications Branch
(S31232) in Cryptanalysis & Exploitation Services (CES) installed SWORDFISH and
NURSESHARK Digital Circuit Multiplication Equipment (DCME) exploitation products at two Czech
FORNSAT sites in or near Prague. Even prior to the creation of our formal SIGINT partnership,
the Czech External Intelligence Service (UZSI) stated they were unable to process DCME bearers
that employ
and requested NSA assistance to process these signals.
(S//SI) Because giving UZSI this capability would benefit both partners, the decision was made
during the June 2005 NSA/UZSI conference that it would be a top priority to help UZSI with
processing these signals. Furthermore, and in a spirit of cross-organizational cooperation, CES
volunteered to fund the TDY for installation and training. Once the equipment was installed, the
Czechs immediately identified other DCME signals (e.g.,
that they
did not know were in the environment. UZSI is now characterizing those newly found signals
and will share the information with NSA. The NSA technicians also assisted in the installation of
the rad144mp vocoder synthesizer software, which was sent to UZSI in December 2005 and
which processes the STOUTHEARTED signal used on the service channel of the Russian
satellite.
(S//SI) With these new capabilities, UZSI is in a much better position to collaborate with the
Counterintelligence and HUMINT Support Product Line (S2D) on Russian counterintelligence
targets and to assist NSA in surveying and processing satellite communications that NSA
FORNSAT collection assets do not have the priority to survey.
(U//FOUO) This article is reprinted from the Foreign Affairs Digest , March edition.
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid comms)."
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