Metadata Sharing Memorandum
Document Date:
July 6, 2005
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Agency:
Press
Document Type:
Internal NSA Documents/Presentations
Records Collected:
Telephony Metadata, Internet Metadata
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.