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Book proof / congressional exhibit
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Summary
This document appears to be a proof page (page 3) from the prologue of a book, stamped as evidence by the House Oversight Committee (Bates #019491). The text details the history and mission of the NSA, specifically regarding COMINT (communications intelligence). While the prompt references 'Epstein', the filename 'Epst_9780451494566' corresponds to the book 'How America Lost Its Secrets' by Edward Jay Epstein, rather than Jeffrey Epstein.
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Edward Snowden | Subject |
Mentioned in the subtitle 'Snowden's Trail'
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| Edward Jay Epstein | Author (Inferred) |
Inferred from filename 'Epst' and ISBN 9780451494566 found in footer
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Organizations (2)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| National Security Agency |
Subject of the text; created October 24, 1952
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| House Oversight Committee |
Source of the document stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'
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Timeline (2 events)
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Mentioned in subtitle regarding Snowden's trail in 2014
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Location of officials mentioned in text
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Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (1,191 characters)
Prologue
Snowden's Trail: Hong Kong, 2014
THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, or, as it is now commonly called, the NSA, was created on October 24, 1952, in such a tight cocoon of secrecy that even the presidential order creating it was classified top secret. When journalists asked questions about this new agency, Washington officials jokingly told them that the initials NSA stood for "No Such Agency." The reason for this extraordinary stealth is that the NSA is involved in a very sensitive enterprise. Its job is to intercept, decode, and analyze foreign electronic communications transmitted around the globe over copper wires, fiber-optic cable, satellite, microwave relays, cell phone towers, wireless transmissions, and the Internet for specified intelligence purposes. In intelligence jargon, its product is called COMINT, which stands for communications intelligence. Because this form of intelligence gathering is most effective when the NSA's targets are unaware of the state-of-the-art tools the NSA uses to break into their computers and telecommunications channels to first intercept and then decrypt
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