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Innovative Super Sized SIGINT Facility Opens in Afghanistan

SUMMARY

The Afghanistan Regional Operations Cryptologic Center outside Kabul, Afghanistan, is now operational. Located at Bagram airfield, the new "super sized" signals intelligence facility will house 250 personnel from nine countries, 120 of them linguists. Material was flown in on six Boeing 747s or trucked from Pakistan, via the Khyber pass.

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Nov 06, 2009

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

May 29, 2019

TAGS

Afghanistan