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Extraction Summary
3
People
8
Organizations
1
Locations
3
Events
3
Relationships
4
Quotes
Document Information
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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 |
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| Edward Snowden | System Administrator / Whistleblower |
Quoted regarding private companies doing governmental work; identified as stealing secrets while at Dell.
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| 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.
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| Unnamed Threat Officer | Report Author |
Author of the 1996 NSA report 'Out of Control' who predicted a system administrator would become a mole.
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Organizations (8)
| Name | Type | Context |
|---|---|---|
| NSA |
National Security Agency; subject of the chapter regarding security vulnerabilities.
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| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency; employer of Aldrich Ames.
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| KGB |
Russian intelligence agency; recruited Aldrich Ames.
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| FBI |
Arrested Aldrich Ames.
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| Dell |
Company where Edward Snowden worked when he began stealing secrets.
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| National Threats Operations Center |
Unit within NSA from which Snowden stole documents.
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| Counterintelligence Center Analysis Group |
Unit within CIA where Ames worked.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by footer 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Timeline (3 events)
Locations (1)
| Location | Context |
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Location where Edward Snowden gave the quote in 2014.
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Relationships (3)
Edward Snowden held nearly two decades later at Dell when he began stealing secrets.
worked as a mole for Russian intelligence.
high-ranking CIA officer.
Key Quotes (4)
"You have private for-profit companies doing inherently governmental work like targeted espionage, surveillance, compromising foreign systems."Source
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Quote #1
"putting 'all their classified information ‘eggs’ into one very precarious basket.'"Source
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Quote #2
"The basket was the computer networks run by technicians called: system administrators."Source
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Quote #3
"NSA’s “Aldrich Ames.” As he put it, would be a “system administrator”"Source
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Quote #4
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