![]() ![]() Rachel now held the NRO's premiere gisting post-Intelligence Liaison to the White House. All those years of cutting through my father's bullshit, she thought. Rachel worked here as a "gister." Gisting, or data-reduction, required analyzing complex reports and distilling their essence or "gist" into concise, single-page briefs. ![]() win military conflicts, but they provided an endless stream of peacetime data to agencies like the CIA, NSA, and Department of Defense, helping them thwart terrorism, locate crimes against the environment, and give policy-makers the data needed to make informed decisions on an enormous array of topics. NRO technologies not only helped the U.S. In total secrecy, the NRO built and maintained an astonishing arsenal of cutting-edge spy technologies-worldwide electronic intercepts, spy satellites, silent embedded relay chips in telecomm products, even a global naval-recon network known as Classic WizardÂ…a secret web of 1456 hydrophones mounted on seafloors around the world, capable of monitoring ship movement anywhere on the globe. ![]()
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