NSA Pushed Latin America Toward 'US Objectives'

NSA Pushed Latin America Toward 'US Objectives'
May 22nd, 2016

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The latest batch of National Security Agency documents revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden on Monday show that the NSA offered tailored training to staff on national security issues in Latin America in an effort to steer the region toward U.S. interests.

A June 2003 edition of the SIDtoday newsletter, an internal publication run by the Signals Intelligence Directorate, the electronic eavesdropping division that The Intercept describes as “arguably the NSA’s most important,” announced a training opportunity for NSA staffers on Latin American strategic intelligence issues.

The course, titled “Latin American Futures Project” and offered through the Strategic Intelligence National Intelligence Officer Council and National Cryptologic School, promised to “analyze potential developments in the Andean region and Brazil over the next five years along with their implications for U.S. interests in the region.”

The spy training planned to delve into “economic, social, political, and security issues” as well as “policy options available to the United States to move developments toward U.S. objectives in the region.”

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