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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
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Document Information

Type: Book excerpt / congressional oversight record
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Summary

This document appears to be a page from a book (Chapter Twenty) included in a House Oversight file. It discusses intelligence failures, specifically comparing the 1994 discovery of CIA mole Aldrich Ames to the later security breach by Edward Snowden. It highlights a prescient 1996 NSA report that warned networking computers would make the agency vulnerable to a 'system administrator' acting as a mole.

People (3)

Name Role Context
Edward Snowden System Administrator / Whistleblower
Quoted regarding private companies doing governmental work; identified as stealing secrets while at Dell.
Aldrich Ames CIA Officer / Russian Mole
High-ranking CIA officer arrested in 1994 for spying for the KGB; used as a case study for intelligence vulnerability.
Unnamed Threat Officer Report Author
Author of the 1996 NSA report 'Out of Control' who predicted a system administrator would become a mole.

Organizations (8)

Name Type Context
NSA
National Security Agency; subject of the chapter regarding security vulnerabilities.
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency; employer of Aldrich Ames.
KGB
Russian intelligence agency; recruited Aldrich Ames.
FBI
Arrested Aldrich Ames.
Dell
Company where Edward Snowden worked when he began stealing secrets.
National Threats Operations Center
Unit within NSA from which Snowden stole documents.
Counterintelligence Center Analysis Group
Unit within CIA where Ames worked.
House Oversight Committee
Implied by footer 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.

Timeline (3 events)

1994
Arrest and exposure of Aldrich Ames as a Russian mole.
USA
1996
Release of internal NSA report 'Out of Control'.
NSA
NSA
2014
Edward Snowden explains his access to the NSA.
Moscow

Locations (1)

Location Context
Location where Edward Snowden gave the quote in 2014.

Relationships (3)

Edward Snowden Employment Dell
Edward Snowden held nearly two decades later at Dell when he began stealing secrets.
Aldrich Ames Espionage KGB
worked as a mole for Russian intelligence.
Aldrich Ames Employment CIA
high-ranking CIA officer.

Key Quotes (4)

"You have private for-profit companies doing inherently governmental work like targeted espionage, surveillance, compromising foreign systems."
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"putting 'all their classified information ‘eggs’ into one very precarious basket.'"
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"The basket was the computer networks run by technicians called: system administrators."
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"NSA’s “Aldrich Ames.” As he put it, would be a “system administrator”"
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