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Project Gunman

campaign:project_gunman Also: Gunman Project

NSA investigation initiated in 1983 and approved by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 to find Soviet surveillance devices in US embassy equipment.

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Direction Predicate Other entity Origin EP
outgoing INVOLVES National Security Agency Explicit 98
outgoing INVOLVES typewriter magnetic recording implant Explicit 98

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Project Gunman INVOLVES National Security Agency

Project Gunman was an investigation kicked off by the NSA into suspected Soviet surveillance of US embassy communications.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 98 Details

“This investigation was kicked off by the NSA and was code-named the Gunman Project.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 26245–26328

Project Gunman INVOLVES typewriter magnetic recording implant

Project Gunman involved finding a sophisticated typewriter implant containing a tiny magnetometer and recording equipment.

Explicit Confidence 97% · Nicole Perlroth EP 98 Details

“what they found in that coil was the most sophisticated exploit that we had ever seen. It was a tiny magnetometer”