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overseen by the NSA.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
National Security Agency (NSA)
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - primarily self-financing via the international drug trade and “front” businesses
like InQTel for off-the-books operations, purchase of exotic munitions, and strategic bribes.
CIA’s Directorate for Science and Technology (DS&T) - gathers intelligence for “Weird Desk.”
NSA’s Central Security Service and CIA’s Special Security Office spy on spies and conduct special ops that cannot be
entrusted to line intelligence.
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Counter Intelligence Division
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) conducts surveillance and interdiction of drug smuggling operations, unless
exempted under “National Security” waivers.
National Security Analysis Center (NSAC) – data-mines Americans and reports to the DOJ; grew out of the FBI’s
Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force (F-Tri-F) after 9/11. (Total Information Awareness?)
Department of Energy Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence conducts internal security checks and external
security threat countermeasures through contractors.
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) coordinates intel gathered from Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard and
Special Forces; provides counter-threat measures and security at ultra-classified installations; Pentagon, VA, Fort
Meade, MD.
U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) - psychological and psychotronic warfare (PSYOPS), para-
psychological intelligence (PSYINT), and electromagnetic intelligence (ELMINT), Ft. Meade, MD.
U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) - intel affecting naval operations; works with
U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) - intel affecting aerospace operations, surveillance, and
coordination with NRO interdiction operations, Fort Meade, MD; works with
NASA Intelligence gathers intel relating to space flights, sabotage, astronaut and reconnaissance satellite encounters.
Air Force Special Operations Security Forces (SOSFS) - NSA/USAF joint intelligence operations unit dealing with
possible threats to aerospace operations; McDill AFB, Orlando FL.
Defense Security Service (DSS) - investigates people and situations deemed a possible threat to any operation of the
Department of Defense.
Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) - investigates threats to Navy/Marine operations; manages Navy security
programs.
Twenty-Fifth Air Force - surveillance and interdiction of threats to the security of Air Force electronic transmissions
and telemetry, and to the integrity of electronic countermeasure (ECM) warfare equipment; Lackland AFB, TX.
Federal Protective Service (FPS) - intel relating to threats against federal property and personnel.

The 2017 intelligence budget (not counting the “black budget”) was $70.3 billion.
The National Security Agency (NSA) was relatively unknown to the American people for its
first few decades of existence (like the NRO). WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden have changed all
that. The NSA’s dominant role in surveillance is now known, but its pivotal role under the Space
Fence remains hidden. While the occasional press release about a 1999 memorandum to NSA
employees banning cute big-eyed Furby stuffed owls able to record and repeat words or phrases
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heard is amusing, the black Humvees with state-of-the-art electronics idling outside NSA
headquarters like Plutonian steeds are not, nor does the chief psychologist standing by for the
Associate Director for Security and Counterintelligence, ready to interrogate NSA employees in
scenes reminiscent of Arthur Koestler’s dystopic novel Darkness at Noon about Soviet Russia.

The military nature of the NSA. NSA directors are generally U.S. Navy officers, and the NSA’s venture capital firm
Paladin Capital Group finances high-tech start-ups that look a lot like the CIA venture capital firm In-Q-Tel. When