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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU)BETWEEN THENATIONAL SECURITY SECURITY SERVICE ANDTHE ISRAELI SIGINT NATIONAL UNIT (ISNU)PERTAINING TO THE PROTECTION OF U.S. PERSONS
I. (U) PURPOSE
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This agreement between NSA and The Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU) prescribesprocedures and responsibilities for ensuring that ISNU handling of materials provided by NSA -- including, butnot limited to. Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) technology and equipment and raw SIGINT data signalsintelligence information that has not been reviewed for foreign intelligence purposes or minimized) -- isconsistent with the requirements placed upon NSA by U.S. law and Executive Order to establish safeguardsprotecting the rights of U.S. persons under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
This agreement will apply to any SIGINT raw traffic, technology, or enabling that NSA mayprovide to ISNU. This agreement applies only to materials provided by NSA and shall not be construed toapply to materials collected independently by ISNU.
ISNU also recognizes that NSA has agreements with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and theUnited Kingdom that require it to protect information associated with UK. persons, Australian persons,Canadian persons and New Zealand persons using procedures and safeguards similar to those applied for U.S.persons. For this reason, in all uses of raw material provided by NSA, ISNU agrees to apply the proceduresoutlined in this agreement to persons of these countries.
(U) This agreement is not intended to create any legally enforceable rights and shall not be construed to beeither an intemational agreement or a legally binding instrument according to intemational law.
. (U) DEFINITIONS
REL) Raw SIGINT is any SIGINT acquired either as a result of search and development, or targetedcollection operations against a particular foreign intelligence target before the information has been evaluatedfor foreign intelligence and minimized. Raw SIGINT includes, but is not limited to, unevaluated andunminimized transcripts, gists. facsimiles, telex, voice and Digital Network Intelligence (DNI) metadata andcontent. -
Minimization is the process used to determine whether U.S. person information encountered inraw SIGINT is essential to assess or understand the significance of the foreign intelligence. The NSA SpecialUS Liaison Advisor Israel (SUSLAIS) should be consulted any time U.S. person information is found in rawSIGINT data supplied by NSA.
(U) A U.S. Person is:l) (U) a citizen of the United States;
2) (U) an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States (informally referred to as a"green card" holder);
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(U) an unincorporated group or association. a substantial number of the members of which constitute (1)or (2) above: or
4) (U) a company incorporated within the United States, including U.S.--flagged non-governmental aircraftor vessels. but not including those entities which are openly acknowledged by a foreign government orto be directed and controlled by them.
5) (U) Additionally, a person known to be currently in the United States will be treated as a person"unless that person is reasonably identified as an alien who has not been admitted for permanentresidence. or if the nature of the person's communications or other information in the contents orcircumstances of such communications give rise to a reasonable belief that such person is not a U.S.person. Any person located outside the United States will be treated  a non-U.S. person unless there isa reasonable belief that such person is a U.S. person.
(U) BACKGROUND
a. NSA routinely sends ISNU minimized and unminimized raw collection associated withselectors from multiple Target Office Primary Interest (TOPI) offices in Analysis and Production, S2 as part ofthe SIGINT relationship between the two organizations. This mutually agreed upon exchange has beenbeneficial to both NSA's and mission and intelligence requirements.
b. NSA and ISNU have previously discussed the protection of U.S. Person information, in relationto tasking joint collection operations. and agreed in principle to not task communications of U.S. citizens. Theproposal to share unminimized raw collection requires additional procedures to meet formal requirements.
In March 2009. ISNU was given an overview briefing during the Raw Material conference and agreed. inprincipal to protect U.S. Person information. It was determined that more formalized training is needed. Thedate of this training is TBD.
IV. (U) RESPONSIBILITIESa. (U) NSA shall:1) Provide an annual review and training of these procedures with ISNU.
2) Regularly review a sample of files transferred to ISNU to validate the absence of U.S.Persons identities.
b. (U) ISNU shall:
1) Not use any technology or equipment that is furnished under the accommodationprocurement process to intentionally target communications to, from, or about U.S. Personsanywhere in the world or intentionally target any person meeting the definition ofa U.S. Personprovided in Section II above.
Not use any infonnation provided by NSA. as raw material or otherwise, to intentionally
intercept the communications to, from or about a LI .S. person. "lntercept" means the use of words orphrases. such as a name, tclex number or answerback. address. telephone number, email address or any
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combination of such terms, to acquire non--public communications. It applies to both electronic andmanual acquisition, including follow-on queries of stored communications.
Strictly limit access to storage Systems containing raw SIGINT provided by NSAexclusively to properly cleared ISNU personnel and to properly cleared members of Israeli lntelligenceservices who ISNU has determined have a strict need to know. Access will be limited to thoseindividuals who have been trained in the aforementioned procedures.
Disseminate foreign intelligence information concerning U.S. persons derived from rawSIGINT provided by NSA -- to include any release outside ISNU in the form of reports, transcripts.gists. memoranda, or any other fomi of written or oral document or transmission only in a mannerthat does not identify the U.S. person. ISNU agrees that it will shield the identities of persons bothby name and by context. i.e. its disseminations shall be in such a way that a reasonably person cannot identify the .S. person from the other contents of the dissemination.
Ensure that any files containing the identities of US. persons withheld from disseminationare retained for no more than one year.
Ensure that any requests from outside parties, including all ISNU customers, for releaseofsuch identities are referred to NSA. and that same is not released without written permission fromNSA.
(U Destroy upon recognition any communication contained in raw SIGINT provided by NSAthat is either to or from an official of the U.S. Government. Government officials" includeofficials of the Executive Branch (including the White House, Cabinet Departments. and independentagencies); the House of Representatives and Senate (members and staff); and the U.S. FederalCourt system (including, but not limited to. the Supreme Court). "Officials" include civilian andmilitary members and employees performing the official business of these branches of govemment, andis independent of seniority or position.
Process only for purposes unrelated to intelligence against the U.S any communicationscontained in raw SIGINT provided by NSA that include references to activities. policies, and views ofU.S. officials.
v. (U) PROCEDURES
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ISNU must inform NSA iiriinediately upon detection, via the SUSLAIS. when the identity ofaUS. person is found in the raw SIGINT provided to ISNU. Additionally, ISNU must provide a written report.via the SUSLAIS and CHIPPEWA on a quarterly basis. detailing the circumstances ofthose instances.
ISNU must inform NSA immediately upon via the SUSLAIS. ofinadvertentintercept of U.S. person communications where a selector that is believed to belong to a valid foreign target issubsequently found to belong to a US. person. ISNU further agrees to detask any and all such selectors. and todestroy any intercept collected as a result of such selectors. whether processed or not.
vi. (U) OVERSIGHT
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ISNU agrees to put in place appropriate management controls to ensure adherence to the abovepolicies. and to provide NSA with an annual report describing these controls and enumerating any and all
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violations of the above policies regarding access. collection, and dissemination. This report will be filed withthe SUSLAIS. who will send it to NSA HQS Office General and ISNU Oversight andCompliance.
NSA agrees to assist with the implementation of appropriate management controls. NSAwill also provide an annual review and training ofthese procedures to ISNU.
VII. (U) AND AMENDMENTS
(U) This MOU is effective immediately upon execution and shall remain valid until modified or rescinded bymutual agreement. It may be terminated unilaterally upon written notice by either party to the other.
(U) The terms and conditions of this MOU shall be reviewed at least every two years or upon request by any ofthe parties.
Amendments to this MOU will be in writing, mutually agreed to by both Parties. and executedby authorized delegates for the Israeli and US. Government. A copy of all amendments will be appended toeach copy ofthis document. dated, and consecutively numbered.
(U) Any disputes or disagreements with regard to the interpretation of this MOU will be resolved throughdiscussion by all parties. The parties agree that they will not attempt to enforce the terms of the MOLZ in anydomestic. third party. or international court or tribunal.
(U) LANGUAGE
This agreement is executed in the English language.
IX. (U) FUNDING
(U) Except as provided herein, this agreement does not sanction the transfer or exchange of appropriated fundsor authorized manpower between the parties.
(U) No appropriated funds are obligated by this agreement. Funding is subject to availability of appropriatedfunds. and must comply with the Anti-Deficiency Act, 21 1341 and l5l7.
X. (U) POINTS OF CONTACT
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The NSA HQS point of contact for this MOU is the Country Desk Officer (CDO) for Israel,Foreign Affairs Directorate.
The NSA representative to Israel is the Special US. Special Liaison Advisor Israel 
The ISNU point of contact is the Head of ISNU Foreign Relations.
XI. (U) SIGNATURES
For the Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU)
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In regard to the extraordinary nature of the NSA, CIA and whatever spy agencies the US has been using to spy on us, the fatal shooting of 12 people at a navy dockyard shows how poor the result of this MASSIVE snooping is... It basically tells us that the US is flying half-blind despite its super-goggles and that the US is concentrating these days on people with "Arabic characteristics".