Why Soviet Weather Was Secret, a Critical Gap in Korea, and Other NSA Newsletter Tales

Summary: Three years after the 9/11 attacks, a frustrated NSA employee complained that Osama bin Laden was alive and well, and yet the surveillance agency still had no automated way to search the Arabic language PDFs it had intercepted. This is just one of many complaints and observations included in SIDtoday, the internal newsletter of the NSA’s signals intelligence division.