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The '''National Security Agency''' (NSA) is a US intelligence agency with foreign signals-intelligence and cybersecurity responsibilities. The [[Central Security Service]] supports the military cryptologic community.<ref>National Security Agency, [https://www.nsa.gov/about/ About NSA/CSS] (undated), accessed 6 November 2026 (Europe/London, GMT).</ref>
 
The '''National Security Agency''' (NSA) is a US intelligence agency with foreign signals-intelligence and cybersecurity responsibilities. The [[Central Security Service]] supports the military cryptologic community.<ref>National Security Agency, [https://www.nsa.gov/about/ About NSA/CSS] (undated), accessed 6 November 2026 (Europe/London, GMT).</ref>
  

Revision as of 23:05, 6 November 2026

National Security Agency

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NSA headquarters, Fort Meade, Maryland. Photograph: Trevor Paglen (public domain).

The National Security Agency (NSA) is a US intelligence agency with foreign signals-intelligence and cybersecurity responsibilities. The Central Security Service supports the military cryptologic community.[1]

Leadership checked in November 2026

The NSA’s official leadership page identifies General Joshua M. Rudd as Director of the NSA, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of US Cyber Command. It lists Tim Kosiba as Deputy Director and Darren Turner as Executive Director.[2]

ASD’s published UKUSA partnership list names the NSA alongside GCHQ, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment and New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau.[3]

People

Directors

The NSA and the UK

Relationship with GCHQ

The NSA has long had particularly close links with its British counterpart, GCHQ. In the early 1980s it was suggested that "the relationship between NSA and GCHQ is stronger than any between the NSA and any other American intelligence agency."[6]

Collection in the UK

This relationship does not prevent the NSA spying on the UK. According to Howard Teicher, the former Middle East director of the US National Security Council, the NSA monitored Britain's Al-Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia from its base at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire.[7]

External resources

Notes

  1. ↑ National Security Agency, About NSA/CSS (undated), accessed 6 November 2026 (Europe/London, GMT).
  2. ↑ National Security Agency, NSA/CSS Leadership (undated), accessed 6 November 2026 (Europe/London, GMT).
  3. ↑ Australian Signals Directorate, Domestic and international partners (undated), accessed 6 November 2026 (Europe/London, GMT).
  4. ↑ Former Directors, National Security Agency, accessed 1 September 2009.
  5. ↑ National Security Agency / DoD, GEN Keith Alexander and Mrs. Debbie Alexander, 21 May 2019 (gallery publication), accessed 6 November 2026 (Europe/London, GMT).
  6. ↑ Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, British Intelligence and Covert Action, Brandon, 1983, p.64.
  7. ↑ Michael Smith, The Spying Game, Politico's, 2003, p.429.
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