CRYPTOME

10 June 2014

DEA/NSA SANDKEY Voice Intercepts

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Enclosed are three images that are the heart of the NSA SANDKEY program. SANDKEY is a joint DEA/NSA program that intercepts and
exploits unencrypted VHF voice communications of narco-traffickers at sea.

SANDKEY targets those communications of and between maritime vessels operating in the Caribbean and southwest waters. It may intercept
communications between the mother ship and go-fast boats or between the mother ship and shore. Primarily it extracts intelligence based on
voice communications and through Radio Direction Finding, vectors law enforcement asserts to the mother ship. For example, a Panama
Express-South (PANEX-S) team will, through an informant, know a certain boat's departure, SANDKEY will be tipped-off to monitor the traffic
and a US Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) will conduct the interdiction. SANDKEY, over it's long-life, has detected and
identified the major drug trafficking corridors in the southwest and Caribbean through direction finding and analysis.

SANDKEY is a traditional Direction Finding program and provides NSA a sense of pride in this regard.

SANDKEY is considered a great program and largely responsible for the reduced narco-trafficking by boat. The program is administered by
the SANDKEY committee, which includes NSA and DEA, USCG, law enforcement, and the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) which is highly
involved. EPIC receives little scrutiny but is a major intelligence player in the central and south Americas and often provides cover for CIA
operations. A South American government official may not want to talk to the CIA but the DEA is usually welcomed. Given their area
knowledge, expertise and language proficiency, the DEA conducts "CIA-like" clandestine and covert activities throughout Mexico, central and
south Americas and is seen as a force multiplier by the US Government in that regard, freeing the CIA for other activities. There was extensive
DEA/CIA collaboration when reducing the FARC problem.

The FCC, beloved of ham radio operators, is a major player in SANDKEY. The expertise the FCC has in traditional Radio Direction Finding
with its CONUS collection antennas, ostensibly for enforcement of Title 47, provides such accurate geo-location that some Naval commanders
on the Joint Task Forces would only interdict if the FCC provides geo-location data (the "cut"). This information is provided so American
guerillas will practice appropriate OPSEC/EMSEC in the troubles to come.

This disclosure also manifests from the DEA subversion of the US Constitution through the Hemisphere/DICE fiasco. You're not allowed to
have intelligence programs anymore.

The irony of the program is the voice intercepts are translated and gisted by immigrant Hispanics, military veterans included, from those
countries. It's a nice job for them.
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FCC - HFDF Network

Q Operational
9 Non-operational
Kenai, Alaska

Ferndale. WA Canandalgua. NY

Belfast. ME

Allegan, Ml

Grand Island. NE
Laurel. MD
Livermore. CA

Powder Springs. GA
Douglas. AZ

Kingsville. TX Vero Beach. FL

Waipahu, HI

Santa Isabel. PR

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Non-operational Cape Cod. MA
MIFC-LANT

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MIFC-PAC
San Antonio. TX
Bay St. Louis. MS
FIOC
San Antonio. TX TIC
Chesapeake. VA
TIC
MIFC-LANT

El Paso. TX Charleston. SC
DEA TIC

Wahiawa. HI Miami. FL
Galveston. TX New Orleans. LA MIFC-LANT.
MIFC-PAC EPIC MIFC-LANT.
MIFC-PAC MIFC-PAC

Key West. FL
Key West, FL EPjq
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OCONUS Collection Antennas

Aguadilla, PR
MIFC-LANT

Santa Isabel, PR
EPIC

Comalapa, ES
MIFC-PAC. JIATF-S Curacao, NA
F IOC
Managua. NI CDET
MIFC-LANT, EPIC Capable When Deployed

San Jose. CS
EPIC

CDET
Capable When Deployed

Guayaquil. EC
EPIC

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