PRISM Operations Highlight: Olympics Support - GCHQ Using PRISM Access
Document Date:
May 24, 2012
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Agency:
Press
Document Type:
Internal NSA Documents/Presentations
Legal Authority:
FISA Amendments Act
Records Collected:
Internet Content
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Top-secret GCHQ PowerPoint slide on the NSA Olympic Option program, a surveillance initiative operated during the London Olympics in 2012, under which at least 100 GCHQ operatives were given access to the PRISM system. This slide reveals that GCHQ received 11,431 "cuts of traffic" from communications intercepted using PRISM.