Operation Trojan Shield: full transcription
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ANOM wasn’t a one-time trick. It’s the same institutional habit the record shows repeating for eighty years.
Build the capability quietly. Use it at a scale the public never approved. Account for it only once a court forces the paperwork into daylight. The Classified Record traces that exact pattern from a 1946 screening memo to the 3.4 million warrantless searches the FBI ran in a single year, using the government’s own documents, not speculation.
Get the book on Amazon →The FBI opened a new covert investigation, Operation Trojan Shield, which centered on exploiting Anom by inserting it into criminal networks and working with international partners, including the Australian Federal Police, to monitor the communications.
Agencies worked with the source to build a master key into the existing encryption system which surreptitiously attaches to each message and enables law enforcement to decrypt and store the message as it is transmitted. A user of Anom is unaware of this capability.
The FBI developed and operated an encrypted device company called Anom, which grew to service more than 12,000 encrypted devices to over 300 criminal syndicates operating in more than 100 countries, including Italian organized crime, Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, and various international drug trafficking organizations.
Agents catalogued more than 27 million messages between users around the world who had their criminal discussions reviewed, recorded, and translated by the FBI, until the platform was taken down. The operation resulted in 800 arrests and seizures of more than 8 tons of cocaine, 22 tons of marijuana, 2 tons of methamphetamine and amphetamine, six tons of precursor chemicals, 250 firearms, and more than $48 million in various worldwide currencies.
This transcription covers the operation's origin, its technical decryption mechanism, its confirmed scale, and its final results as stated in the Department of Justice's own official announcement. The full unsealed affidavit contains substantially more detail on the operation's international coordination.
Case: Operation Trojan Shield / ANOM, FBI. Concluded June 8, 2021.
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