Fort George G. Meade

But here's where the reverse flow gets interesting.

The NSA just hosted a first-of-its-kind reunion for TAO alumni at Fort Meade.

The explicit purpose was recruitment.

They've lost about 2,100 people, 8% of the workforce, in the last year.

Green badges are contractors.

A former official noted that a lot of ex-TAO people still have active clearances, but they don't like their contractor gigs, or they can't work on projects that require an inherently governmental body.

So the talent is physically at Fort Meade, wearing a green badge, and the NSA

still can't fully use them.

Sadly, now teenagers are using it on TikTok.

In June of 1983, a classified document was hand-delivered to the commander of the U.S. Army Operational Group in Fort Meade, Maryland.

29 pages written by Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M. McDonald.

The title of this document, Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process.

We were at the height of the Cold War and the Soviet Union was pouring resources into psychic research.

American intelligence agencies were terrified of falling behind.

Project Stargate, established in 1977 at Fort Meade by the Defense Intelligence Agency, was tasked with investigating whether psychic phenomena, particularly remote viewing, could be weaponized for intelligence gathering.

It The stuff we see on TV.

He was a VQ guy for a little bit of time.

Uh, you know, flew airborne reconnaissance, and then off to Fort Meade.

Uh, but as I understand it, I don't know, but let's just say that there was a cadre of officers who did not appreciate such a highly polished and well-spoken officer.

Of course.

Yep.

While he was there, one of the producers of Oprah Winfrey's show saw him, and they offered him a job.

When I next saw him, the third time I saw him in my entire life there, was the day he was out-processing from NavSec Group Fort Meade.

Mm-hmm.

And I know because I've met the two bald guys running the NSA's quantum AI computing development program.

They came to multiple talks of mine in D.C. for the Fort Meade crowd, and – I know that the reason NSA is interested and investing heavily in things like AI and quantum computing is so they can more quickly go through the millions upon millions of documents and electronic surveillance they've amassed on all of us since the passage of the Patriot Act.

So,

yeah, man, I, I, lastly, I'll end it with this.

The NSA is preparing its most extensive internal restructuring in at least a decade, according to current and former officials briefed on the plan.

Uh, Army General Joshua Rudd, who became NSA director in March and also leads the US Cyber Command, told senior leaders last week he will create five new organizations at Fort Meade focused on artificial intelligence, China, cybersecurity, combat support or war fighting, and global intelligence.

Each organization will be led by a new mission director with authority similar to the NSA deputy director.

You know what's funny is like the way he's describing this, this layout is exactly how people are using GrokBot.

By the late 1970s, the work had moved beyond a California contractor laboratory.

At Fort George G. Meade in Maryland, Army intelligence personnel were screened, trained and assigned to an in-house remote viewing effort associated with the codename Grill Flame.

The names would change repeatedly.

Earlier and related work appeared under labels including Skanate and Gondola Wish.

And again, I view Bletchley Park as a mecca.

I've worked at Fort Meade.

I've been in some of the places of the greats here in U.S. Navy cryptology.

But when you go to bletchley park you just think about the in not just as you say the enormous effort the impact on everything and then you know when you go to a place like the churchill war rooms you know and you you think about how i think it was the bombing of bristol that churchill had it's very advanced knowledge that you know nor is it birmingham bristol

It's mind boggling how much human effort went into it, because right now everything we do is processed, right? Or we'd like to think it is.

But, you know, getting down to giving the decision maker, you know, this consumable, actionable intelligence and seeing that in World War Two, three hours is no warning.

Now I had an incident where Fort Meade saved my life and we were like looking at our watch like oh i can actually tell you because it's in my memoir it took two years to clear my memoir and they nsa just cleared like everything go ahead put it all out there uh but we have been given advanced warning on a ship coming to sink us and by the third hour we're

like where are they showing up we're ready to be attacked you know

My final year I was in an ASA unit, okay? This is on the East German border, Czechoslovak border.

Um, and we had all kinds of, uh, people who obviously were gonna go on to Fort Meade and somehow work in the NSA.

Uh, what am I trying to say? We, we, we don't pay enough attention to these intelligence communities, and we don't know how to give dap, uh, to the Russians.

And some of us give way too fucking much dap to the Russians, uh, as if they don't have an intelligence community trying to work a anti-American na- narrative that, uh, Americans can simply accept as if this is merely a political position staking out ground.