Word: umbra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Intelligence and Research Bureau, analyzing developments around the world. (In this case the mystery visitor left the briefing book behind.) The pouch could also have contained the daily digest of National Security Agency intercepts gathered by ultrasecret satellites and listening devices. These often bear the special code-word classification UMBRA, a category beyond TOP SECRET, reserved for the most sensitive electronic intelligence. Most riveting would have been pages of NSA intercepts dealing with Iraq. Typically, the NSA targets not only hostile countries but also U.S. allies...