Case Studies: Media Reporting on Intelligence Activities
One of the best ways to understand intelligence capabilities is to study media reports about intelligence operations and the tools and methods used to gather intelligence. Until recently, this type of analysis was limited to historic information, such as the Ultra program designed to counter the German Enigma code system in World War II.
When U.S. defense contractor Edward Snowden released a large cache of what he claimed were classified documents to the media in 2013, however, he provided a unique, if unconfirmed, glimpse of U.S. intelligence-collection capabilities. Studying this information shows how intelligence agencies may operate and how SIGINT capabilities, in particular, seem ...
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