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Email — NSA Deliberately Messaging Elections PDB (23 November 2020)

Internal IC email chainNov 23, 20206 pagesEMAIL_NSA.MassagedPDB_23NOV2020_DECLASS_REDACT.pdf

Declassified by President Trump 3 July 2026

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Key Insights

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  • The NSA deliberately massaged a PDB to avoid any direct links to the election, and a massive report was chopped into 13 reports that likely would not get out until late next week.

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  • A sender expresses concern about why the NSA is 'deliberately massaging' analysis away from elections, noting it may be further delayed pending upcoming releases.

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  • The email includes an NSA 'ELECTION SECURITY GROUP' and CNIO for Cyber and Elections signature blocks, with NIO — Cyber signature including 'The spice must flow'.

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5 sourced claims

A sender frames "two albeit related things": (1) the PDB, which "apparently they've worded away from elections," expressing concern "as to why they are 'deliberately massaging' analysis away from elections," noting it may be further delayed pending upcoming releases; and (2) a larger NSA effort to get all reporting needed for the 45-day report into [a channel] for ease of reporting (p.1).

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Notes checking with regional NIOs on progress toward the 30 November date on the ICA draft (p.1).

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Another writes "I'm not sure what to make of this. If this is off, why does [J] say, 'ok'?" (p.1).

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Forwards the NSA Strategic Intelligence Analyst's 20 Nov message repeating: "We have deliberately massaged our one pending PDB to avoid any direct links to the election. The massive report... has been chopped up into 13 reports that likely will not get out until late next week" (p.2-3).

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Includes NSA "ELECTION SECURITY GROUP" and CNIO for Cyber and Elections signature blocks; NIO — Cyber signature with "The spice must flow" (p.2-6).

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