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Extraction Summary

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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
4
Quotes

Document Information

Type: Book page / evidence document
File Size: 1.64 MB
Summary

This document is page 218 from the book 'How America Lost Its Secrets' (likely by Edward Jay Epstein), stamped as evidence by the House Oversight Committee. It details the security risks inherent in the NSA's outsourcing of intelligence work to private contractors like Booz Allen Hamilton and Dell, highlighting a 'revolving door' of high-level executives moving to private firms. The text specifically cites Edward Snowden's ability to move between contractors (Dell to Booz Allen) as a realization of security vulnerabilities warned about in NSA memos dating back to 2005.

People (6)

Name Role Context
Michael McConnell Former NSA director
Hired by Booz Allen through 'revolving door'
James Woolsey Former director of the CIA
Hired by Booz Allen through 'revolving door'
James Clapper Retired general / Director of national intelligence
Hired by Booz Allen through 'revolving door'
General Hayden Head of the NSA (departing)
Warned in 2005 about vulnerabilities of outsourcing
Snowden Contractor / Whistleblower
Moved from Dell to Booz Allen Hamilton in 2013
Edward Jay Epstein Author
Inferred from file name 'Epst' and book title 'How America Lost Its Secrets'

Organizations (6)

Name Type Context
NSA
National Security Agency
Booz Allen / Booz Allen Hamilton
Private contracting firm hiring intelligence executives
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
Dell
Private contracting firm employing Snowden
Congress
Imposed budget restrictions on hiring
House Oversight Committee
Source of the document stamp (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019706)

Timeline (2 events)

2013
Snowden moved from Dell to Booz Allen Hamilton
USA (implied)
Prior to 2016
Hacking of over nineteen million employee records
USA
Intelligence workers Hostile intelligence service

Relationships (3)

Michael McConnell Employment Booz Allen
Booz Allen hired retiring executives... such as the former NSA director Michael McConnell
Snowden Employment Dell
moved from Dell
Snowden Employment Booz Allen Hamilton
moved... to Booz Allen Hamilton in 2013

Key Quotes (4)

"It even featured a revolving door through which Booz Allen hired retiring executives from the intelligence services"
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"Snowden did when he moved from Dell to Booz Allen Hamilton in 2013."
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"outsourcing seemed to provide a number of advantages to the NSA... circumventing the budget restrictions imposed by Congress"
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Quote #3
"This breach would allow hostile services to obtain a great deal of information about independent contractors working at the NSA."
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