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• AN- [r]: Add brief definition or description
• ASA [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Advanced Encryption Standard [r]: A US government standard issued in 2002 for a stronger block cipher to succeed the earlier Data Encryption Standard. ^[e]
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode [r]: A technology for the transfer of fixed-length "cells" of digital information through specialized cell switches built on top of optical transmission networks; increasingly obsolescent ^[e]
• Bulk encryption [r]: The encipherment of all traffic on a digital transmission medium, without awareness of multiplexed channels, data link protocols, etc., in the medium. ^[e]
• CIA activities in Europe and Russia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• CIA activities in Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cipher [r]: A means of combining plaintext (of letters or numbers, or bits), using an algorithm that mathematically manipulates the individual elements of plaintext, into ciphertext, a form unintelligible to any recipient that does not know both the algorithm and a randomizing factor called a cryptographic key ^[e]
• Classified information [r]: Material collected or created by a government that is subject to limitations on its release to the general public and may have penalties for its unauthorized release. ^[e]
• Committee for State Security [r]: Usually known as the KGB, one of Organs of State Security of the Soviet Union, with extensive responsibilities in intelligence (information gathering), border security, counterintelligence and suppression of dissent; split up in the Russian Federation with counterintelligence in the FSB and foreign intelligence in the SVR ^[e]
• Communications Security Establishment [r]: The Canadian government organization responsible for communications security and signals intelligence ^[e]
• Conspiracy theory [r]: Belief that a covert and deceptive organization or people is responsible for important world events, and that these people are hiding their own involvement, acting from behind the scenes and spreading misinformation. ^[e]
• Cryptography controversy [r]: The "crypto wars", political controversies and legal cases involving the use of cryptography. ^[e]
• Cryptology [r]: The theory and practice of protecting the content of communications, and of defeating the protective measures ^[e]
• Data Encryption Standard [r]: A block cipher specification issued by the U.S. government in 1976, intended for sensitive but unclassified data. It is now obsolescent, succeeded by the Advanced Encryption Standard, but still used in commercial systems. ^[e]
• DePaul University [r]: A private university in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., founded by the Congregation of the Mission in 1898. ^[e]
• Defense Information Systems Network [r]: The shared Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) terrestrial digital communications system for the U.S. military, onto which are layered routed networks such as NIPRNET, SIPRNET and JWICS ^[e]
• Defense Intelligence Agency [r]: One of the members of the United States intelligence community, charged with providing national-level analysis specifically relevant for military needs, and being the focal point for measurement and signature intelligence ^[e]
• Department of National Defence (Canada) [r]: The Canadian cabinet department responsible for the uniformed Canadian Forces, departmental agencies, and several organizations (e.g., search and rescue) that may or may not be part of the regular military of some other nations. ^[e]
• Director of National Intelligence [r]: Prior to the attacks of 9/11, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was the nominal head of the United States Intelligence Community, following 9/11 a more senior position was created, with a measure of actual authority over those agencies ^[e]
• Director, National Security Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Drug Enforcement Administration [r]: Federal government agency charged with enforcing controlled substances laws and regulations in the United States. ^[e]
• Extranet [r]: A predefined set of networked computers, under the control of different enterprises, that can communicate with one another for well-defined, secure application processing. ^[e]
• FASTLANE [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Global Information Grid [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Government Communications Headquarters [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gulf of Tonkin incident [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Information operations [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Integrated air defense system [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Intelligence collection management [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Intra-squad radio [r]: Add brief definition or description
• JWICS [r]: Add brief definition or description
• KG-13 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• KIV-7 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lieutenant general [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Local area network [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Maryland [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Measurement and signature intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Michael Hayden [r]: Add brief definition or description
• NIPRNET [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Reconnaissance Office [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Security Act of 1947 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Security Agency and Southeast Asia, 1954-1961 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National intelligence organizations [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National security [r]: Add brief definition or description
• One-time pad [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operations security [r]: Add brief definition or description
• PRC-154 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• RC-135 COMBAT SENT [r]: Add brief definition or description
• RC-135 RIVET JOINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Room 40 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• SIPRNET [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Signals intelligence from 1990 to the present [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities [r]: Add brief definition or description
• TACLANE [r]: Add brief definition or description
• TROJAN SPIRIT [r]: Add brief definition or description
• TSEC- [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Terrorism and U.S. Intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tet Offensive [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Traffic analysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U-2 Dragon Lady [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. Department of Defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. intelligence and transnational counterproliferation activities [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. support to South Vietnam before Gulf of Tonkin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• ULTRA [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Strategic Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States intelligence community [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vietnam War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vietnamization [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Warrantless surveillance [r]: Add brief definition or description