NSA

The National Security Agency is an American intelligence agency that protects the nation's electronic communications and cracks everyone else's electronic communications. They can be pretty handy when electronic aliens are invading you!

Their name is usually shortened to NSA, not to be confused with the National Security Advisor.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Events from The Transformers Trilogy novels are in italics.

The Followers had a spy, Franklin Townsend, within the NSA. Transformers: Hardwired Transformers: Annihilation

G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers

Mainframe started life as an NSA officer. The NSA picked up an image of one of Cobra's enslaved Transformers. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2

Years later, agents of Cobra-La pretended to be NSA in order to retrieve Doctor Mindbender. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4

Live-action film series

Transformers film

Australian expatriate Maggie Madsen used to work for the NSA until she started rewriting her supervisor's conclusions in reports (and was right). When the Decepticons invaded, the NSA were involved in trying to decode their communications. Transformers

Dark of the Moon film

Charlotte Mearing cited her power to a senator by pointing out that when the NSA wanted funding, they first had to ask her. Dark of the Moon

2005 IDW continuity

Sandra stated to Spike that if anyone at the NSA noticed her computer signal, then Skywatch's operations would be exposed. All My Sins Remembered

Beast Wars: Uprising

As part of Operation Staple Gun, 731 Cobra scientists, engineers and technicians were offered amnesty and quietly sequestered into, among other groups, the NSA. Both Rapticon and Ne'll became familiar with the history of these events. The Inexorable March

External links

• National Security Agency official website
• [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}National Security Agency|{{#if:||National Security Agency}}]] at Wikipedia