Some of this looks fake. I've been reading through the documents, and there's little or no detail there that indicates any inside information. It's mostly plausible management-level PowerPoint presentations.
Some not so plausible.The picture of a "network operations center"[1] is actually a power station control room; the picture was lifted from a site for industrial generating plants.[2] That presentation is supposedly by "Head of GCHQ NAC", but whoever picked that picture has never been in a network operations center.
Also, some of of the "classified codewords" seem related to the subject matter. Real NSA codewords are chosen randomly, to avoid that.
> [S]ome of of the "classified codewords" seem related to the subject matter.
1) I'm aware of not-really-important projects that have an obvious connection between their code words and the thing described by the code word.
2) Many, but not all projects have randomly generated names. It's really up to the discretion of the -for lack of a better term- project manager and his supervisor whether they use the random name or use a more evocative one. DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM were two high-profile classified projects from the early 1990s whose names were not randomly generated.
Some not so plausible.The picture of a "network operations center"[1] is actually a power station control room; the picture was lifted from a site for industrial generating plants.[2] That presentation is supposedly by "Head of GCHQ NAC", but whoever picked that picture has never been in a network operations center.
Also, some of of the "classified codewords" seem related to the subject matter. Real NSA codewords are chosen randomly, to avoid that.
[1] https://search.edwardsnowden.com/docs/AutomatedNOCDetection2... [2] http://www.pgsicorp.com/industrial-generators.html