Executive Summary On December 18, 2006, [REDACTED] submitted an Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act complaint that contained allegations about a lack of intelligence oversight procedures at research and development facilities performing work for DoD intelligence components. The employee specifically raised concerns about the perceived mishandling of U.S. persons information by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, a research and development facility [REDACTED]. The employee also raised concerns that [REDACTED] was not responsive to his request to investigate and correct the deficiencies associated with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego and other DoD research and…
Author: John Greenewald
Background Defense Collaboration Services (DCS) enables synchronous communication among the Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNet) and Secure Internet Protocol Routing Network (SIPRNet). The capability includes Web Conferencing (session management, text messaging, application sharing/broadcasting, audio, presence and awareness, voting/polling, video, multiple sessions, and recording) and Instant Messaging (IM). DCS supports Common Access Card (CAC) and select hard token holders and unanticipated (select DOD mission partners) users. Anticipated users are issued accounts which authorize privileges to manage/control collaboration sessions, whereas unanticipated users are provided ad hoc guest access without pre-specified roles/permissions. Capacity DCS can scale to handle 10,000 concurrent users with…
Background In a letter dated August 9, 2011, the Honorable Peter King, Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives, cited concerns involving “ongoing leaks of classified information regarding sensitive military operations.” Chairman King referenced an August 6, 2011, New York Times op-ed column that claims, “Administration officials may have provided filmmakers with details of the raid that successfully killed Usama Bin Laden (UBL).” According to this article, filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal received “top-level access to the most classified mission in history.” Chairman King requested that Department of Defense (DoD) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Inspectors General explore related matters and respond to…
Background According to Wikipedia: The National Program Office (NPO) was an office of the United States Government, established to ensure continuity of government in the event of a national disaster. The NPO was established by a secret executive order (National Security Decision Directive 55) signed on 14 September 1982 by President Ronald Reagan during the Cold War in preparation for a nuclear war, presumably with the Soviet Union. The NPO plan was classified Top Secret, codeword Pegasus. It was also referred to as Project 908 (also known as “Nine Naught Eight”). The only oversight was by a Project Pegasus committee…
Background Space – A Collection of Articles [109 Pages, 12.1MB] The following foreign intelligence papers were received from the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) and were housed at the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) of Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB). It consists of early 1960s intelligence, of papers written by Soviet scientists, in regards to space related questions, such as, interstellar travel, extraterrestrial civilizations and planet atmospheres. The papers included in this release were: Interstellar Flights, by K. P. Stanyuk ovich and V. A. Bronshten Creation of Habitable Medium in Future Space Flights of Man, byA. A. Nichiporovich Astronautics and Extraterrestrial…