What the dear NSA allegedly mean by "Mystic site"?

katana katana at riseup.net
Sat Feb 7 13:05:40 PST 2015


Hi,

> "Approx 10-15 SIGINT reports pers week from "Mystic sites" other than
> Sca....."

> 1. What does "Mystic site" mean to the dear NSA?
> 2. Is "site" in the usual computer sense?

MYSTIC is an ECI codename for a bunch of NSA SSO/TAO-TNT collection
sites or installations in foreign telephony provider networks (perhaps
corporate partner access with NSA NCSC), collecting telephony contents
and metadata in different countries:
ACIDWASH ?
DUSKPALLET (Kenia, TOPI:CIA)
ETCHINGSPIN ?
EVENINGEASEL (Mexico, TOPI:CIA)
LAUNDROMAT ?
PERMANENTPRESS ?
RANCIDRINSE ?
VENATOR (Philippines, with 5-Eyes partner ASD/Australia)

The "Sca..." is imo SCALAWAG, one of the SOMALGET class MYSTIC
collection sites/projects (the other SOMALGET's are BASECOAT, OILYRAG,
LOLLYGAG)

-- 
Katana



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