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20 November 2013

NSA National Intelligence Priorities Framework V3


Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:50:26 -0800 (PST)
From: xxxxx[at]efn.org
To: cryptome  <cryptome[at]earthlink.net>
Subject: NIPF v3

In this version I have integrated 3 major sources: Der Spiegel Articles, The SIGINT Strategic Mission List, and Wikileaks Cablegate items into a unified document. Because this document contains information from different years, I have provided date information in a separate column. In instances where a country has been mentioned in several timeframes, I have made a new line for each date rather than attempt to merge data across timeframes. A key and supporting document have been provided. I have not yet had time to review today's (Nov 19) FISA declassified material for clues. If any are present they will be integrated accordingly.

Cablegate: there are 9 cables entitled "REPORTING AND COLLECTION NEEDS: (Country/region)". These have provided a great deal of information regarding the format of the NIPF and has allowed for much reworking of the column headers in my chart: adding, merging, renaming etc.. They have provided complete pictures of the priorities for a country or region and some details about terrorist/paramilitary groups.  They have allowed this document to take major strides in mimicking the genuine article. Dated 2008-2009. The GI Files (Stratfor) also had a few documents, (one of which was originally from Cablegate). The remaining were not useful to the chart reconstruction.

The Cablegate material is quite detailed, if you desire more information about a particular country I highly recommend reading the original cables for more.

Wikileaks Library of Diplomacy search link:

http://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/index.php?qproject[]=cg&q=NIPF&s=&qfconcept_hid
=&qfconcept=&qftags_hid=&qftags2_hid=&qftags=&qforigin_hid=&qforigin=&qfdestination_
hid=&qfdestination=&qfofficeorigin_hid=&qfofficeorigin=&qfofficeaction_hid=&qfofficeaction
=&qfoclass=SECRET&qforiginalhandlingrestriction=&qfcclass=&qfexecutiveorder_hid=
&qfexecutiveorder=&qfmarkings=&qftype=&qfenclosure_hid=&qfenclosure=&qfserie=
&qflocator=&qfsigncount=&qtfrom=1966-01-01&qtto=2010-12-31&qsort=tasc#result

SIGINT Strategic Mission List: A January 2007 list of the SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) requirements heavily based from the NIPF. It is lacking in HUMINT (Human Intelligence) priorities. It is also generally lacking in country-specific information regarding intentions of leadership, terrorism, and demographics, health and a few other topics, except in the cases of Enduring Targets. The information in the Cablegate documents has enabled me to map the Missions to the NIPF format.

http://cryptome.org/2013/11/nsa-sigint-strategic-mission-2007.pdf

Der Spiegel: April 2013. Dribs and drabs of whatever seems important to tell in a particular article.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cover-story-how-nsa-spied-on-merkel-
cell-phone-from-berlin-embassy-a-930205-2.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-nsa-documents-show-how-the-us-
spies-on-europe-and-the-un-a-918625.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-targeted-french-foreign-ministry-a-
919693.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-hacked-email-account-of-mexican-
president-a-928817.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-is-a-both-a-partner-to-and-a-
target-of-nsa-surveillance-a-916029.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-scandal-berlin-restricted-by-close-
relationship-with-us-intelligence-a-931503-2.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-and-gchq-spied-on-opec-a-
932777.html

http://cryptome.org/2013/11/nsa-framework-support-v3.pdf