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Intercept has also released free-to-use photos of the NSA, NRO and NGA here: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/new-photos-of-nsa-and-others/
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Intercept has also released free-to-use photos of the NSA, NRO and NGA here: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/new-photos-of-nsa-and-others/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/new-ph...
> Since June 2013, article after article about the NSA has been illustrated with a single image supplied by the agency, a photograph of its Fort Meade headquarters that appears to date from the 1970s.
> The photographs below – which are being published for the first time – show three of the largest agencies in the U.S. intelligence community. The scale of their operations was hidden from the public until August 2013, when their classified budget requests were revealed in documents provided by Snowden. Three months later, I rented a helicopter and shot nighttime images of the NSA’s headquarters. I did the same with the NRO, which designs, builds and operates America’s spy satellites, and with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which maps and analyzes imagery, connecting geographic information to other surveillance data. The Central Intelligence Agency – the largest member of the intelligence community – denied repeated requests for permission to take aerial photos of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
> My intention is to expand the visual vocabulary we use to “see” the U.S. intelligence community.