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Top secret teens: The high schoolers recruited by the National Security Agency


By Alex Marquardt, CNN

Updated 4:03 PM ET, Sun August 11, 2019
Just what is the NSA? (2013)


Fort Meade, Maryland (CNN)Summer's high school friends think she's monitoring their phones and listening in on their conversations. They speculate about the "wild things" she does at work and jokingly accuse her of being a spy.

"They like to have fun with it," Summer says. But her friends might be forgiven because when the 18-year-old wasn't in class at her Maryland high school this past school year, she was at her job in the sprawling National Security Agency complex at Fort Meade in Maryland.

There, she works "somewhat in cyber," she responds cryptically when asked what someone in their teens would be asked to do for the NSA, which leads the American intelligence community's electronic signals intelligence gathering and code-breaking efforts.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/11/politics/top-secret-teens-nsa/index.html