our network
This presentation from June 2010, presented at the SIGDEV conference of that year, describes an approach to exploiting medical supplies in order to track down Osama bin Laden: see the Intercept article The NSA Plan to Find Bin Laden by Hiding Tracking Devices in Medical Supplies, 21 May 2015.
Revealed documents
Interview with an SID “Hacker” — Part 2: Hacker Culture and Worker Retention
This 12 July 2012 post from the NSA newsletter SIDToday describes the internal culture of Tailored Access Operations (TAO) from the perspective of a practitioner: see the Intercept article What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, 18 May 2015.
Black Budget – Bin Laden extracts
These extracts from the 2013 Congressional Budget Justification (the “Black Budget”) describe US intelligence activity around the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Abbotabat compound: see the Intercept article What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, 18 May 2015.
Regional Command Southwest RC(SW) – Afghanistan – 23 June 2011
This extract from a Regional Command Southwest intelligence report dated June 2011 provides an assessment of the implications of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound for Pakistan: see the Intercept article What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, 18 May 2015.
Regional Command Southwest RC(SW) – Afghanistan – 19 June 2011
This extract from a Regional Command Southwest intelligence report dated June 2011 provides an assessment of the implications of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound for Pakistan: see the Intercept article What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, 18 May 2015.
SHAPE Weekly Report on NATO-led Operations – 1 June 2011
This extract from a NATO intelligence report dated June 2011 provides an assessment of the implications of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound for the Taliban: see the Intercept article What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, 18 May 2015.
SHAPE Weekly Report on NATO-led Operations – 13 May 2011
This extract from a NATO intelligence report dated May 2011 provides an assessment of the implications of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound for the Taliban: see the Intercept article What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, 18 May 2015.
SIGINT Year in Review, November 2011
In this extract from a 22 November 2011 article in the NSA’s internal SIDToday newsletter the agency’s director of Signals Intelligence, Teresa Shea, talks about the NSA’s role in the raid on bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound in very general terms: see the Intercept article What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, 18 May 2015.
JTAC Attack Methodology Team
This page taken from GCHQ’s internal GCWiki, last updated on 8 September 2011 notes that the agency’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre was involved in analysis of material seized in the raid on bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound: see the Intercept article What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, 18 May 2015.
What does the death of Usama bin Laden mean?
In this 17 May 2011 article from the internal newsletter SIDToday, the NSA Signals Intelligence Directorate’s Associate Deputy Director for Counterterrorism, Jon Darby, decribes how the NSA played a “critical” role in the raid in bon Laden’s Abbottabad compound: see the Intercept article What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, 18 May 2015.