(1 page) This memo reports that "the ICREACH team delivered the first-ever wholesale sharing of communcations metadata within the U.S. Intelligence Community." It states that the "team began over two years ago with a basic concept compelled by the IC's increasing need for communcations metadata and NSA's ability to collect, process and store vast amounts of communications metadata related to worldwide intelligence targets."
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(1 page) This 2010 memo states that ICREACH has been accessible to more than 1,000 analysts at 23 U.S. government agencies that perform intelligence work. The memo states that the agency's CIA colleagues have "enthusiastically embraced" the NSA's programs,
(36 pages) This planning document from 2007 lists the DEA, FBI, CIA and DIA as core members. It reveals that information shared through ICREACH can be used to track people's movements, map out their networks of associates, help predict future actions, and ptoentially reveal religious affiliations or political beliefs.
(4 pages) This NSA background provides background for the CRISSCROSS/PROTON program, explains how data is minimized, and how the program operates today in conjunction with other "NSA metadata respositories and tools."
(3 pages) Classified letter from NSA Director General Keith Alexander to Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte which outlines Alexanders vision for the ICREACH system.
(2 pages) NSA memo describing the NSA's CRISSCROSS program, a secret project launched by the CIA and DIA to analyze phone billing records and phone directories to identity links between intelligence targets. CRISSCROSS was first used in Latin America to identify narcotics-related suspects.
(2 pages) This memo from the Tech Director of the Target Analysis Center introduces ICREACH to the Intelligence Community. It explains that ICREACH "intends to make more metadata accessible to [the] Intelligence Community brethren primarily for the purposes of situational awareness and target development."
(2 pages) This writeup from the Intelligence Community appears to be a list of main points discussed at the 2008 Metadata Policy Conference.
(2 pages) The intelligence community's "Black Budget" for 2013 shows that the NSA sought new funding to "expand and grow" the ICREACH program.
(1 page) Special Source Operations' (SSO) slides reporting WHARPDRIVE access point was discovered by commercial consortium personnel, requiring an appropriate cover story and destruction of any associated evidence. As a result of this breach, data collection and agent training and deployment were delayed at the request of the corporate partner. WHARPDRIVE is a data collection operation under the NSA's Special Source Operations Division that, in this instance, intercepted a fiber-optic cable to gather data.