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Document claims Russia’s SVR seeks NSA source lists and cites historic NSA defections

Document claims Russia’s SVR seeks NSA source lists and cites historic NSA defections The passage repeats well‑known Cold‑War history and broad assertions about Russian intent without providing new names, dates, transactions, or concrete evidence. It suggests a possible investigative angle—whether modern Russian intelligence has succeeded in obtaining current NSA source lists—but offers no verifiable leads. Key insights: Alleged Russian goal to acquire NSA source/methods lists via SVR espionage; Reference to historic NSA defections (William Martin, Bernon Mitchell) in 1960; Claim that Russia is the only intelligence service to have penetrated the NSA

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Document claims Russia’s SVR seeks NSA source lists and cites historic NSA defections The passage repeats well‑known Cold‑War history and broad assertions about Russian intent without providing new names, dates, transactions, or concrete evidence. It suggests a possible investigative angle—whether modern Russian intelligence has succeeded in obtaining current NSA source lists—but offers no verifiable leads. Key insights: Alleged Russian goal to acquire NSA source/methods lists via SVR espionage; Reference to historic NSA defections (William Martin, Bernon Mitchell) in 1960; Claim that Russia is the only intelligence service to have penetrated the NSA

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171 telephones (SORM 1), emails and other Internet activity (SORM-2), and computer data storage of billing information (SORM-3). Not only did Russia run a nationwide system of Internet-filtering in 2013, but it requires their telecommunication companies furnish to it worldwide data. The NSA also had to deal with many peripheral issues other than the activities of Russia and China. It was charged with monitoring everything from nuclear proliferation in Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea, to potential jihadist threats everywhere in the world. The Russian intelligence service, on the other hand, could put its limited resources to work on redressing the gap with its main enemy: the United States. Nevertheless, Putin had to reckon with the reality in 2013 that Russia could not compete with the NSA in the business of intercepting communications. And if the NSA could listen in on all the internal activities of its spy agencies and security regime, the ability of Putin to use covert means to achieve his other global ambitions would be impaired. In the Cold Peace that replaced the Cold War, Russia had little hope of realizing these ambitions unless it could weaken the NSA’s iron-tight grip on global communications intelligence. One way to remedy the imbalance between Russian intelligence and the NSA was via espionage. Here the SVR would be the instrument and the immediate objective would be to acquire the NSA’s lists of its sources in Russia. If successful, it would be a game changer. Such an ambitious penetration of the NSA, to be sure, was a tall order for Russian intelligence. Most of its moles recruited in the NSA by the KGB, had been code clerks, guards, translators, and low-level analysts. They provided documents about the NSA’s cipher-breaking, but they lacked access to these lists of the NSA’s sources and methods These meager results did not inhibit Russian efforts. Yet, for almost seven decades, ever since the inception of the NSA in 1952, the Russian Intelligence service had engaged in a covert war with the NSA. The Russian intelligence service is, as far as is known, the only intelligence service in the world that ever succeeded in penetrating the NSA. A number of NSA employees also defected to Moscow. The history of this venerable enterprise is instructive. The first two defectors in the NSA’s history were William Martin and Bernon Mitchell. They were mathematicians working on the NSA’s decryption machines who went to Moscow via Cuba in 1960. The Russian intelligence service, then called the KGB, went to great lengths to publicize their defections. It even organized a 90-minute long press conference for them on September 6, 1960 at the Hall of Journalists and invited to it all the foreign correspondents in Moscow. Before television cameras, the defectors proceeded to denounce the NSA’s activities. Martin told how the NSA breached international laws by spying on Germany, Britain and other NATO allies. Mitchell, for his part, suggested that the NSA’s practice of breaking international laws could ignite a nuclear war. Indeed, he justified their joint defection to Russia in heroic whistle-blowing terms, saying, "We would attempt to crawl to the moon if we thought it would lessen the threat of an atomic war." The NSA historian assessed little damage had been done since the NSA quickly could change the codes they compromised. He noted: “The Communist spymasters would

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