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“SIGINT,” in the parlance of the intelligence community, is gleaned from phone transmissions, telexes, emails, satellites and other forms of electronic communication.

While much of its work is kept under wraps, Unit 8200 collects and processes signals intelligence, or SIGINT, making it akin to the U.S.

Unlike the NSA, which practices on large-scale “SIGINT”, or signals intelligence, the CIA tends to focus on targeted surveillance.

He stressed that “SIGINT is wired into our military operations as never before.”

In a dawning age of encrypted, fiber optic and mass communications, coupled with rising global Islamic terrorism, the NSA was losing a game called SIGINT, or signals intelligence.