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FIRSTFRUITS is a United States counterintelligence program and database that tracks unauthorized disclosures of intelligence material in the news media. The project's goal is to reduce losses of collection capability due to journalists. The database was created by the US Central Intelligence Agency, but then transferred to US National Security Agency. The database has thousands of unofficial and negative articles and authors. Maintenance of the program was outsourced to third parties like Booz Allen Hamilton. The program became known through whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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  • FIRSTFRUITS is a United States counterintelligence program and database that tracks unauthorized disclosures of intelligence material in the news media. The project's goal is to reduce losses of collection capability due to journalists. The database was created by the US Central Intelligence Agency, but then transferred to US National Security Agency. The database has thousands of unofficial and negative articles and authors. Maintenance of the program was outsourced to third parties like Booz Allen Hamilton. The program became known through whistleblower Edward Snowden. Joseph J. Brand, a senior US National Security Agency (NSA) official, was a leading advocate of a crackdown on leaks from whistleblowers in the US. In 2001 the NSA created a department and staffed it with "leak trackers." The CIA hired a contractor "to build [a] foreign knowledge database". The program was funded by the CIA. The name played on the phrase "the fruits of our labor". According to Brand, "Adversaries know more about SIGINT sources and methods today than ever before,". Brand noted some disclosures came from the U.S. government's own official communications; and other secrets were acquired by foreign spies. But "most often these disclosures occur through the media." Brand listed four "flagrant media leakers" in his presentation: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Times. Journalist tracked in the database include Bill Gertz, Seymour Hersh, James Bamford, James Risen, Vernon Loeb, John C. K. Daly, and Barton Gellman. Journalist in the database are tracked by the intelligence agency with regular reports going to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice for possible prosecution. (en)
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  • FIRSTFRUITS is a United States counterintelligence program and database that tracks unauthorized disclosures of intelligence material in the news media. The project's goal is to reduce losses of collection capability due to journalists. The database was created by the US Central Intelligence Agency, but then transferred to US National Security Agency. The database has thousands of unofficial and negative articles and authors. Maintenance of the program was outsourced to third parties like Booz Allen Hamilton. The program became known through whistleblower Edward Snowden. (en)
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