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Jason Nelligan, a career counselor at the U. of U., said the NSA attends career fairs on campus at least twice a year. Nelligan also has attended NSA informational sessions for students.
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NSA recruiters "talk to students about a love of the language and make sure that students, if they were to apply … have a true understanding of that language," he said.
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Neither the NSA nor the Utah National Guard provided details about the secured room in Draper or the relationship between the two agencies. Snowball said the secured room is required because the NSA and military intelligence data is too sensitive to risk transmission on conventional communications systems or for someone to view in the open.
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Snowball, who retired in 2005, declined to discuss some of the missions in which Utah soldiers helped the NSA. But Snowball said Utah soldiers were always instructed not to collect and store intelligence on Americans.
"There was never a time we weren't briefed about being extremely careful about that," Snowball said.
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