NSA
leaked slide showing SENTRY EAGLE program where different DHS, DOD, and
NSA clasified programs are hidden within less classified national
programs. (NSA)
On October 10, Peter Maass and Laura Poitras writing for The Intercept, released
more powerpoint slides from leaked NSA documents concerning highly
classified programs that are hidden from public scrutiny. The documents,
originally leaked by Edward Snowden,
reveal that “Sentry Eagle” is used as an umbrella term for hiding the
NSA’s most sensitive programs that are classified “Exceptionally
Controlled Information” (ECI). Several powerpoint slides show how ECI
programs are hidden beneath less classified programs as a cover. The
leaked documents support claims made 16 years earlier by Dan Sherman,
another NSA whistleblower, who revealed that he worked in a secret
communications program with alien (extraterrestrial) entities that was
hidden beneath less classified NSA programs as a cover.
The Intercept article discusses a 13 page “brief sheet” about “Sentry Eagle”:
“You are being indoctrinated on Sentry
Eagle,” the 2004 document begins, before going on to list the most
highly classified aspects of its various programs. It warns that the
details of the Sentry Eagle programs are to be shared with only a
“limited number” of people, and even then only with the approval of one
of a handful of senior intelligence officials, including the NSA
director.
Among the leaked power point slides is a set called “Core Secrets Slide Slices.”
These slides (see slideshow) reveal how ECI programs are only made
available to a few select individuals within the Intelligence Community
with a strict need to know access. Two of the slides show how Sentry
Eagle acts as an umbrella for hiding its most sensitive ECI programs
under less classified programs. This supports the claims by Dan Sherman
who worked for three years as an electronic intelligence specialist with
the NSA.
