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(S//SI) SIGINT Relationship With Spain To Be Modified
FROM: Michael Clifford
formerly of FAD's Europe Office (DP11)
Run Date: 06/20/2006
(S//SI) In addition to terrorist targets, NSA and Spain to now cooperate on Russian organized
crime.
(S//SI) In response to a Foreign Affairs Directorate-sponsored request to modify the existing
NSA SIGINT relationship with Spain, the Office of the Director for National Intelligence has
approved an expansion of SIGINT exchange. Since July 2002, NSA has jointly targeted several
terrorist groups with Spain's Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI, National Intelligence Center),
most notably the ETA separatist group. Now, with the ODNI approval, NSA can embark on a new
target set, that of Russian Organized Crime. Additionally, the expansion approval raises the level
of the relationship to Top Secret.
(S//SI) Initially discussed with the foreign partner in May 2005, the subject of Organized Crime
quickly became a primary target beneficial to both services. Both services easily identified nearly
a dozen targets of mutual interest.
(S//SI) With the approval in hand, FAD and S2F21 (Transnational Organized Crime) will now
pursue the expanded relationship with CNI. The first formal discussions will be held at the
annual CT Analytic Conference to be held in June 2006 at NSAW.
(U) Vladimir Kumarin, head of the St. Petersburg-based Tambov organized crime syndicate.
(Reuters)
(U//FOUO) This is an abbreviated version of an article from the Foreign Affairs Digest , May
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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