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The Snowden Archive

This repository is a complete collection of all documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden that have subsequently been published by news media around the world.

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Timeline of Revelations (2013-2017)

2013

Date Source Publication
06/06/2013 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order for Verizon to provide U.S. call metadata to FBI The Guardian
06/06/2013 NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily The Guardian
06/06/2013 NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program The Washington Post
08/06/2013 Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data The Guardian
08/06/2013 New NSA tool to quantify, track intelligence collection revealed live The Guardian
20/06/2013 The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant The Guardian
27/06/2013 NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama The Guardian
30/06/2013 New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies The Guardian
31/07/2013 XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' The Guardian
09/08/2013 NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls The Guardian
16/08/2013 NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds The Washington Post
23/08/2013 NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies The Guardian
30/08/2013 'Black budget' summary details U.S. spy network's successes, failures and objectives The Washington Post
31/08/2013 Snowden Document: NSA Spied On Al Jazeera Communications Der Spiegel
01/09/2013 'Success Story': NSA Targeted French Foreign Ministry Der Spiegel
03/09/2013 Veja os documentos ultrassecretos que comprovam espionagem a Dilma O Globo Fantastico
05/09/2013 Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security The Guardian
08/09/2013 NSA Documents Show United States Spied Brazilian Oil Giant O Globo Fantastico
11/09/2013 NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel The Guardian
16/09/2013 'Follow the Money': NSA Monitors Financial World Der Spiegel
20/09/2013 Belgacom Attack: Britain's GCHQ Hacked Belgian Telecoms Firm Der Spiegel
28/09/2013 N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens The New York Times
04/10/2013 Secret NSA documents show campaign against Tor encrypted network The Washington Post
04/10/2013 Talk by Roger Dingledine of Torproject.org at the NSA The Washington Post
04/10/2013 NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users The Guardian
06/10/2013 American and Canadian Spies target Brazilian Energy and Mining Ministry O Globo Fantastico
14/10/2013 NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally The Washington Post
20/10/2013 Fresh Leak on US Spying: NSA Accessed Mexican President's Email Der Spiegel
21/10/2013 France in the NSA's crosshair: phone networks under surveillance Le Monde
24/10/2013 Espionnage de la NSA : "Une ligne rouge a été franchie", pour la CNIL Le Monde
24/10/2013 NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts The Guardian
25/10/2013 The NSA wiretapped French diplomats in the US Le Monde
27/10/2013 Embassy Espionage: The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin Der Spiegel
28/10/2013 La NSA espió 60 millones de llamadas en España en sólo un mes El Mundo
30/10/2013 NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say The Washington Post
01/11/2013 Snowden document reveals key role of companies in NSA data collection The Guardian
03/11/2013 No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A. The New York Times
04/11/2013 How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data The Washington Post
04/11/2013 Claves y giros del espionaje masivo en España El Mundo
17/11/2013 'Royal Concierge': GCHQ Monitors Diplomats' Hotel Bookings Der Spiegel
17/11/2013 Australia's spy agencies targeted Indonesian president's mobile phone The Guardian
19/11/2013 DNI Clapper Declassifies Additional Intelligence Community Documents Regarding Collection Under Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Office of the Director of National Intelligence
19/11/2013 Dette sier Snowden-dokumentet om USAs overvåkning av norske telefonsamtaler Dagbladet
20/11/2013 US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data The Guardian
22/11/2013 NSA-files repeatedly show collection of data «against countries» - not «from» Dagbladet
23/11/2013 NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software NRC Handelsblad
23/11/2013 N.S.A. Report Outlined Goals for More Power The New York Times
26/11/2013 Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit 'Radicalizers' The Huffington Post
26/11/2013 Microsoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic The Washington Post
02/12/2013 Revealed: Australian spy agency offered to share data about ordinary citizens The Guardian
02/12/2013 New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto CBC
04/12/2013 NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show The Washington Post
05/12/2013 Revealed: How the Nsa Targets Italy L'Espresso
05/12/2013 The NSA Toolbox: ANT Product Catalog gov1.info
09/12/2013 Spies Infiltrate a Fantasy Realm of Online Games The New York Times
10/12/2013 New documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data The Washington Post
10/12/2013 NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking The Washington Post
10/12/2013 Snowden document shows Canada set up spy posts for NSA CBC
11/12/2013 Read the Snowden Documents From the NSA SVT
23/12/2013 Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission's accomplished The Washington Post
29/12/2013 NSA: Die Klempner aus San Antonio Der Spiegel
29/12/2013 Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit Der Spiegel
30/12/2013 NSA-Programm "Quantumtheory": Wie der US-Geheimdienst weltweit Rechner knackt Der Spiegel
30/12/2013 NSA-Totalausspähung: FDP-Politiker Baum setzt auf Generalbundesanwalt Der Spiegel
30/12/2013 NSA's Secret Toolbox: Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need Der Spiegel

2014

Date Source Publication
02/01/2014 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption The Washington Post
16/01/2014 NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep The Guardian
27/01/2014 Spy Agencies Tap Data Streaming From Phone Apps The New York Times
27/01/2014 Snowden docs reveal British spies snooped on YouTube and Facebook NBC
28/01/2014 Angry Birds and 'leaky' phone apps targeted by NSA and GCHQ for user data The Guardian
30/01/2014 For the NSA, espionage was a means to strengthen the US position in climate negotiations Information DK
31/01/2014 CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents CBC
04/02/2014 Exclusive: Snowden Docs Show UK Spies Attacked Anonymous, Hackers NBC
07/02/2014 Exclusive: Snowden Docs Show British Spies Used Sex and 'Dirty Tricks' NBC
08/02/2014 NSA hielp Nederland met onderzoek naar herkomst 1,8 miljoen NRC Handelsblad
11/02/2014 The NSA's Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program The Intercept
15/02/2014 Document Describes Eavesdropping on American Law Firm The New York Times
18/02/2014 Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters The Intercept
25/02/2014 How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations The Intercept
27/02/2014 Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ The Guardian
05/03/2014 The secret role of the Dutch in the American war on terror NRC Handelsblad
07/03/2014 The NSA Has An Advice Columnist. Seriously. The Intercept
11/03/2014 How a Court Secretly Evolved, Extending U.S. Spies' Reach The New York Times
12/03/2014 How the NSA Plans to Infect 'Millions' of Computers with Malware The Intercept
13/03/2014 Foreign Officials In the Dark About Their Own Spy Agencies' Cooperation with NSA The Intercept
15/03/2014 Compare the NSA's Facebook Malware Denial to its Own Secret Documents The Intercept
18/03/2014 NSA surveillance program reaches 'into the past' to retrieve, replay phone calls The Washington Post
20/03/2014 Inside the NSA's Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators The Intercept
21/03/2014 La France suspectée de cyberespionnage Le Monde
22/03/2014 N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat The New York Times
29/03/2014 'A' for Angela: GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies and Merkel Der Spiegel
04/04/2014 The "Cuban Twitter" Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket The Intercept
30/04/2014 British Spy Chiefs Secretly Begged to Play in NSA's Data Pools The Intercept
30/04/2014 No Place to Hide Documents Glenn Greenwald
19/05/2014 Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas The Intercept
10/06/2014 DEA/NSA SANDKEY Voice Intercepts Cryptome
18/06/2014 Keith Alexander Talking Points Dagbladet
18/06/2014 The NSA in Germany: Snowden's Documents Available for Download Der Spiegel
30/06/2014 Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, documents show The Washington Post
09/07/2014 Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On The Intercept
14/07/2014 Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet The Intercept
23/07/2014 Privacy watchdog's next target: the least-known but biggest aspect of NSA surveillance The Washington Post
23/07/2014 The NSA's New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia's Brutal State Police The Intercept
04/08/2014 Cash, Weapons and Surveillance: the U.S. is a Key Party to Every Israeli Attack The Intercept
05/08/2014 Watch Commander: Barack Obama's Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers The Intercept
12/08/2014 NPR Is Laundering CIA Talking Points to Make You Scared of NSA Reporting The Intercept
15/08/2014 NSA/GCHQ: The HACIENDA Program for Internet Colonization Heise Online
25/08/2014 The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google The Intercept
31/08/2014 A Two-Faced Friendship: Turkey Is 'Partner and Target' for the NSA Der Spiegel
14/09/2014 Treasure Map: The NSA Breach of Telekom and Other German Firms Der Spiegel
15/09/2014 New Zealand Launched Mass Surveillance Project While Publicly Denying It The Intercept
11/10/2014 Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany The Intercept
20/11/2014 Vodafone-Linked Company Aided British Mass Surveillance The Intercept
25/11/2014 Snowden-Leaks: How Vodafone-Subsidiary Cable & Wireless Aided GCHQ's Spying Efforts Suddeutsche Zeitung
04/12/2014 Operation Auroragold: How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide The Intercept
13/12/2014 Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium's Largest Telco The Intercept
28/12/2014 Obama's Lists: A Dubious History of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan Der Spiegel
28/12/2014 NSA Documents: Attacks on VPN, SSL, TLS, SSH, Tor Der Spiegel
28/12/2014 Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security Der Spiegel

2015

Date Source Publication
17/01/2015 The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle Der Spiegel
17/01/2015 The Digital Arms Race: How the NSA Reads Over Shoulders of Other Spies Der Spiegel
27/01/2015 CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents CBC
04/02/2015 Western Spy Agencies Secretly Rely on Hackers for Intel and Expertise The Intercept
10/02/2015 NSA Claims Iran Learned from Western Cyberattacks The Intercept
19/02/2015 The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle The Intercept
26/02/2015 CSE monitors millions of Canadian emails to government CBC
26/02/2015 CSE monitors millions of Canadian emails to government CBC
26/02/2015 CSE monitors millions of Canadian emails to government CBC
07/03/2015 Snowden files: Inside Waihopai's domes Stuff
10/03/2015 The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets The Intercept
11/03/2015 Snowden revelations: NZ's spy reach stretches across globe NZ Herald
25/03/2015 Communication Security Establishment's cyberwarfare toolbox revealed CBC
02/04/2015 Britain Used Spy Team to Shape Latin American Public Opinion on Falklands The Intercept

2016

Date Source Publication
29/01/2016 Anarchist Snapshots: Hacked Images From Israel's Drone Fleet The Intercept
02/02/2016 Exclusive: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks' malware checklist Boing Boing
11/05/2016 The Secret NSA Diary of an Abu Ghraib Interrogator The Intercept
16/05/2016 The Most Intriguing Spy Stories From 166 Internal NSA Reports The Intercept
07/06/2016 Facing Data Deluge, Secret U.K. Spying Report Warned of Intelligence Failure The Intercept
15/08/2016 The Raid: In Bungled Spying Operation, NSA Targeted Pro-Democracy Campaigner The Intercept
19/08/2016 Shadow Brokers: The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm The Intercept
29/12/2016 Top-Secret Snowden Document Reveals What the NSA Knew About Previous Russian Hacking The Intercept
16/11/2016 Titanpointe: The NSA's Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight (Project X) The Intercept
06/09/2016 Inside Menwith Hill: The NSA's British Base at the Heart of U.S. Targeted Killing The Intercept

2017

Date Source Publication
10/04/2017 Burn After Reading: Snowden Documents Reveal Scope of Secrets Exposed to China in 2001 Spy Plane Incident The Intercept
24/04/2017 Why Soviet Weather Was Secret, a Critical Gap in Korea, and Other NSA Newsletter Tales The Intercept
24/04/2017 NSA Kept Watch Over Democratic and Republican Conventions, Snowden Documents Reveal The Intercept
24/04/2017 NSA Blimp Spied in the United States The Intercept
24/04/2017 Japan Made Secret Deals With the NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance The Intercept
06/06/2017 Fifty Years Later, NSA Keeps Details of Israel's USS Liberty Attack Secret The Intercept
19/08/2017 The U.S. Spy Hub in the Heart of Australia The Intercept
20/08/2017 Pine Gap plays crucial role in America's wars, leaked documents reveal Australian Broadcasting Corporation
25/10/2017 NSA Concealed Records on JFK Assassination for Decades The Intercept