European Security Center to Begin Operations
Document Date:
March 29, 2004
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Agency:
Press
Document Type:
Internal NSA Documents/Presentations
Records Collected:
Telephony Metadata, Telephone Content
NSA memo announcing the establishment of the European Security Center (ESC) in Germany. The ESC will primarily support the U.S. Army, Europe, and the European Command, but will also conduct mutually beneficial, cooperative missions with various Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID) Product Lines throughout much of Africa and parts of the Middle East. The ESC is a complete production facility efficient in performing collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of telephone content.