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Book page / government document
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Summary
This document is the first page of Chapter 14, titled "The Crime Scene Investigation." It opens with a quote from Edward Snowden regarding NSA security vulnerabilities and begins a narrative description of a secure NSA facility located near Honolulu, Oahu, detailing its history from World War II to its modern role in intelligence gathering.
People (1)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Edward Snowden |
Organizations (6)
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| NSA | ||
| Wheeler Air Force Base | ||
| air force | ||
| navy | ||
| U.S. Defense Department | ||
| U.S. intelligence agencies |
Timeline (2 events)
World War II
Cold War
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Key Quotes (1)
"Any private contractor, not even an employee of the government, could walk into the NSA building, take whatever they wanted, and walk out with it and they would never know."Source
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CHAPTER 14
The Crime Scene Investigation
Any private contractor, not even an employee of the government,
could walk into the NSA building, take whatever they wanted,
and walk out with it and they would never know.
—EDWARD SNOWDEN, MOSCOW, 2014
could walk into the NSA building, take whatever they wanted,
and walk out with it and they would never know.
—EDWARD SNOWDEN, MOSCOW, 2014
FIFTEEN MILES NORTHWEST of Honolulu on the island of Oahu,
adjacent to the sprawling Wheeler Air Force Base, is a 250,000-
square-foot, man-made mound of earth and reinforced concrete sur-
rounded by an electrified fence. Inside the mound is a three-story
structure originally built by the air force in World War II as a bomb-
proof aircraft repair facility. In the Cold War, it was modernized to
withstand enemy chemical, biological, radiological, or electromag-
netic pulse attacks and was used by the navy's operation center for
its Pacific fleet. After the Cold War, the huge edifice was turned over
to the NSA, which, as stated earlier, had been created as an intelli-
gence service to intercept the communications and signals of foreign
countries after World War II, a mission that included vacuuming
into its giant computer arrays telephone messages, missile telem-
etry, submarine signals, and virtually everything on the electro-
magnetic spectrum of interest to the U.S. Defense Department and
U.S. intelligence agencies. As the NSA developed it, this Hawaiian
base became one of its primary regional bases for gathering Asian
adjacent to the sprawling Wheeler Air Force Base, is a 250,000-
square-foot, man-made mound of earth and reinforced concrete sur-
rounded by an electrified fence. Inside the mound is a three-story
structure originally built by the air force in World War II as a bomb-
proof aircraft repair facility. In the Cold War, it was modernized to
withstand enemy chemical, biological, radiological, or electromag-
netic pulse attacks and was used by the navy's operation center for
its Pacific fleet. After the Cold War, the huge edifice was turned over
to the NSA, which, as stated earlier, had been created as an intelli-
gence service to intercept the communications and signals of foreign
countries after World War II, a mission that included vacuuming
into its giant computer arrays telephone messages, missile telem-
etry, submarine signals, and virtually everything on the electro-
magnetic spectrum of interest to the U.S. Defense Department and
U.S. intelligence agencies. As the NSA developed it, this Hawaiian
base became one of its primary regional bases for gathering Asian
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