Talya Cooper

Talya Cooper is the former Digital Archivist at The Intercept, based in New York. Previously, she was archive manager at StoryCorps. She has written and presented about the intersections of archival ethics, privacy, and security.

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FILE - In this June 8, 2008, file photo, a U.S. soldier at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, takes down an older photo, to display a latest image purporting to show the body of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an al-Qaida-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq. After al-Zarqawi's death in a 2006 U.S. airstrike, his Iraqi successor, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, began to bring in more Iraqis, particularly former Saddam Hussein's officers. That process was accelerated when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took over after his predecessor was killed in a 2010 airstrike. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Snowden Archive

328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology

Margot Williams, Talya Cooper, Henrik Moltke, Micah Lee

- Aug. 15

Highlights from the seventh release of the internal NSA newsletter, SIDtoday.

FALLUJAH, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 23: U.S. Marines escort nine detainees captured in Fallujah, half of them from other countries such as Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Gulf states, to a local "prison" as other U.S. Marines of the 1st Battalion 3rd Marines, Alpha company engage four insurgents during house searches November 23, 2004 in Fallujah, Iraq. U.S. commanders are trying to quell the insurgency in Iraq. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)

Snowden Archive

NSA Used Porn to “Break Down Detainees” in Iraq — and Other Revelations From 297 Snowden Documents

Margot Williams, Talya Cooper, Micah Lee

- Mar. 1

The documents, from an internal NSA newsletter, also reveal problems recruiting Arabic speakers to the spy agency and evidence of election fraud in Egypt.

Snowden Archive

Sloppy U.S. Spies Misused a Covert Network for Personal Shopping — and Other Stories from Internal NSA Documents

Micah Lee, Margot Williams, Talya Cooper

- Sep. 13

Campaigns to spy on internet cafes and tap Iraqi communications, as well as an intimate NSA examination of Czech spying, are detailed in NSA newsletters.

North Korean soldiers carry a portrait of late leader Kim Jong-Il during a military parade to mark 100 years since the birth of the country's founder Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang on April 15, 2012. The commemorations came just two days after a satellite launch timed to mark the centenary fizzled out embarrassingly when the rocket apparently exploded within minutes of blastoff and plunged into the sea. AFP PHOTO / PEDRO UGARTE (Photo credit should read PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images)

Snowden Archive

Why Soviet Weather Was Secret, a Critical Gap in Korea, and Other NSA Newsletter Tales

Margot Williams, Micah Lee, Talya Cooper

- Apr. 24

The latest batch of SIDtoday articles published by The Intercept covers the second half of 2004 and the beginning of 2005.

New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose

Jenna McLaughlin, Talya Cooper

- Sep. 16

Oliver Stone’s latest film, “Snowden,” is a dramatized version of the life of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the global extent of U.S. surveillance capabilities.

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328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology

NSA Used Porn to “Break Down Detainees” in Iraq — and Other Revelations From 297 Snowden Documents

Sloppy U.S. Spies Misused a Covert Network for Personal Shopping — and Other Stories from Internal NSA Documents

Why Soviet Weather Was Secret, a Critical Gap in Korea, and Other NSA Newsletter Tales

New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose