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America's spies hold a Christmas ornament competition every year...
and some have a 'cloak and dagger' theme
READ MORE: Verizon warns 'highly sophisticated' spies targeted US networksBy MATTHEW PHELAN SENIOR SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 17:58, 23 December 2024 | Updated: 20:01, 23 December 2024
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While America's spies are shrouded in mystery, it appears they enjoy celebrating the holidays the same way as the rest of the us.
Ever since 2004, the National Security Agency (NSA) has held an internal design competition among its employees to craft each year's annual holiday ornament.
Some, like 2016's 'Red, White and Blue' Christmaspresent bow and 2024's nutcracker, have leaned more into the full look and spirit of the holiday season.
Others, however, have celebrated the agency's 'cloak and dagger' history, like 2019's replica of the famous World War II encryption device, the 'Enigma' machine, and 2004's haunting model of the NSA's granite pyramid memorialto its fallen agents.
One NSA ornament from the 1990s even worked as a functional encryption and decryption device for encoding secret messages: NSA's 1998 Cipher Disk ornament.
'The Cipher Disk has been used for secure communications since its invention in Italyaround the year 1470,' a booklet that accompanied the gilded spy wheel explained.
'The Cipher Disk came into widespread use in the US during the Civil War [and] about a half century later, the US Army adopted a simplified version of the disk.'
Even by 'turn of the century' standards, however, as this simplified version of the device saw deployment in World War I, the Cipher Disk only gave 'a few hours of protection to tactical messages' intercepted by America's foes.
Above, the National Security Agency (NSA) offered this filigreed star ornament in 2009, the winner of a design competition that the secretive US spy agency has held annually since 2004
One NSA ornament even worked as a functional encryption and decryption device to encode secret messages: NSA's 1998 Cipher Disk ornament (above).
'The Cipher Disk has been used for secure communications since its invention in Italy around the year 1470,' the agency said
It's unclear when the NSA's ornament tradition officially began, as its National Cryptologic Museum declined multiple requests by DailyMail.com for comment.
'We have nothing to offer you on this,' a spokesman for the NSA's National Cryptologic Museum told DailyMail.com when asked about the ornaments.
But former NSA network specialist Jeremy Duffy was more candid: 'Some people complained about them being really cheap and badly designed some years.'
For example, as one eBay seller notedin their auction listing a golden 'NSA satellite dish' ornament, made in 2000: 'The antenna has bends.
But even as a strong agency critic today, Duffy still holds some of the NSA's holiday decorations — like 2008's etching of the NSA's Fort Meade HQ — in high regard.
'The ornament [was] top notch,' he said.
While the NSA's ornament design contest is a new 21st Century tradition at the agency, according to The Dallas Morning News, the annual holiday ornaments themselves stretch back at least a decade prior.
In his over a dozen years with the NSA, Duffy said the ornaments were treated like any other piece of company swag: meaning that opinions varied on their value.
Some of the NSA's holiday ornaments have celebrated the agency's 'cloak and dagger' history, like 2019's replica of the famous World War II encryption device, the 'Enigma' machine (above)
The 2019 Enigma machine ornament opens (pictured above) to reveal the tiny typewriter used to make the WWII encoding decive's encrypted and decrypted messages
Other NSA holiday ornaments, like 2024's NSA nutcracker (pictured) have leaned more into the full look and spirit of the holiday season than agency history
'Regarding the ornaments,' he told DailyMail.com, 'they were something some people liked to get and others didn't care about.' But that hasn't stopped civilians from obsessing over the clandestine crafts, reveling in years worth of the NSA 'Secret Santa' holiday tchotchkes.
Vintage spycraft and memorabilia collector Richard Brisson, who runs the site ultrasecret.cafrom Canada, suspects that the agency's holiday ornaments included more than one each year in some years.
'I believe there were many more ornaments (without assigned years) produced since the early 1990's,' Brisson told DailyMail.com via email.
His own collection goes only as far back as 1994, an NSA 'snowflake' ornament, but he's seen a few undated ornaments — including an elaborate 'filigreed star' ornament similar to the 2009 edition, but with no date, and another undated 'Peace' and 'Unity' ornament possibly from 2014.
While the NSA is scant on details about their ornaments, that hasn't stopped ordinary civilians from obsessing over these clandestine crafts, reveling in years worth of the NSA 'Secret Santa' gifts.
Above a still from the YouTube account Spy Collection, which collects the ornaments
Vintage spycraft and memorabilia collector Richard Brisson suspects that the ornaments included more than one each year in some years.
'I believe there were many more ornaments (without assigned years) produced since the early 1990's,' Brisson told DailyMail.com
'Some people complained about them being really cheap and badly designed some years,' ex-NSA network specialist Jeremy Duffy told DailyMail.com As one eBay seller noted in their eBay listing a golden 'NSA satellite dish,' made in 2000: 'The antenna has bends.
'For 2014 [...] I have been unable to find someone who can confirm the actual ornament for that year,' Brisson said.
'The one listed there has no year that I can find — unless it is sneakily encoded in some way!' NSA historians revealed that the ultra-secretive spy agency began with an extremely meager, Scrooge-like Christmas holiday policy.
Starting in December 1952, the then-director of the NSA permitted only one tightly designated 1.5 hours between 3pm and 4:30pm on December 24th for any and all Christmas parties for the agency's cryptographers, staff and field agent spooks.
Free Christmas trees were available for each unit, 'flame-proofed prior to distribution,' but had to be removed from the building promptly by 5:30pm on Christmas Eve, an hour after the short holiday party allotment.
NSA's 2004 ornament was a haunting model of the agency's granite memorial pyramid (above)
This 2004 NSA Ornament has a seasonal wreath on its backside (above)
Above: The backside of one NSA 'filigreed star' ornament from 2009
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By 1963, the NSA was offering its staff a '(whopping!) $0.25 per person, twice a year, toward the cost of a mid-season activity and a Christmas party,' per the agency's historians.
'That might buy you, in 2018, one large bottle of iced tea in the Agency vending machine,' this NSA history explained, 'with three cents left over.'
Adding insult to injury, these miserly 'Fun Funds' had to be requested by filling out a special 'Memorandum Request Form.' These were years in which even the very existence of the NSA was hidden from the public — it wasn't even until the post-Watergate era when Senate hearings not only that the NSA existed but that it was spying on Americans.
'When I tried to do an on-camera report for CBS standing outside the NSA gate,' journalist Daniel Schorr remembered of that era, 'a US Marine warned me I would be shot if I didn't go away.' This year, almost 50 years later, the NSA has launched its own podcast, 'No Such Podcast,' titled after a play on the old joke about what its acronym stands for ('No Such Agency').
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Tom Cruise's close relationship with his Hollywood agent of 20 years Tulisa reveals she urged ITV to 'take her off camera' in the days after her I'm A Celebrity departure because she was having a 'breakdown' Jennifer Lopez's new film Unstoppable makes just £3,000 on its opening weekend at the UK box office amid the singer and actor's turbulent year Ruth Jones is forced to apologise live on BBC Radio 2 after she makes on-air blunder - as Gavin And Stacey fans beg the cast to front show every day Kyle Walker is to spend Christmas with estranged wife Annie Kilner, but the pair are NOT 'fully reconciled', reveals ALISON BOSHOFF Antiques Roadshow guest gasps 'never!' as she learns life-changing value of 'one-off' ballerina brooch 'made for somebody very important' Tom Hanks, 68, insisted he's in 'better shape now than 30 years ago' just weeks before sparking concern with shaking hands Gavin and Stacey fans brand the cast's BBC Radio 2 takeover 'ICONIC' - as the countdown continues to the final ever episode EXCLUSIVE Justin Baldoni's wedding apology: Director accused of sexual harassment by Blake Lively said sorry for his 'faults' at nuptials EastEnders confirms Christmas schedule shake-up as episodes pulled from BBC iPlayer with early release scrapped Michael Schumacher set to become a grandfather after daughter Gina announces she is pregnant 'End of an incredible era' as Crocodile Dundee star dies Myleene Klass and her fiancé Simon Motson enjoy a fun day out with son Apollo, five, at Winter Wonderland BBC Breakfast star announces shock TV return 'much to their surprise' as they bag role on hit daytime show - and they're back on screen in just weeks Tulisa admits she's had 'periods of being asexual' - after coming out as demisexual and revealing her three years of celibacy on I'm A Celeb Gogglebox star goes public with new girlfriend in sweet clip - after split from model ex Jude Bellingham is NOT in a relationship with model Laura Celia Valk as the stunning Dutch fashion star gives blunt three-word answer to boyfriend question Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell enjoy an Aspen Christmas shopping spree while Kate Hudson channels her inner cowgirl during shopping trip Kim Kardashian crawls through a house wearing a blonde wig in bizarre music video for her Santa Baby cover with a surprise cameo from A-list star Ashley Roberts sends temperatures soaring as she swaps cosy winter wear for daring thong bodysuit after jetting over to Arizona for Christmas 80s pin-up looks unrecognizable 40 years after starring in superhero film...
can you guess who?
Good Morning Britain in double hosting shake-up as both Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley are replaced by familiar faces Adele enjoys romantic dinner with fiancé Rich Paul in LA ahead of plans to marry and welcome a daughter Death In Paradise fans all make the same demand to BBC bosses as Don Gilet makes 'shocking debut' Die Hard 2 actor Art Evans dies aged 82 after a long health battle as his wife pays heartfelt tribute to her 'devoted husband' Fears for Tom Hanks as fans spot worrying sign during the A-listers appearance on Saturday Night Live Blake Lively's sister breaks silence with six-word statement on Justin Baldoni sexual harassment lawsuit - Jeremy Clarkson admits his pub is a 'total disaster' in the wake of thefts, £27,000 to 'keep the council off his back' and disgusting loos Jennifer Lopez and ex Ben Affleck exchange Christmas presents over lunch at Soho House in LA Ariana Grande's Wicked BTS photos noticeably missing boyfriend Ethan Slater after his ex wife speaks out Tennis power couple Alex de Minaur and Katie Boulter celebrate HUGE relationship update Rita Ora puts on a VERY busty display in a red crop top before flashing her toned pins in sizzling new snaps as she reveals her plans for 2025 Netflix fans go wild for series that makes for an 'outstanding binge watch' All the A-list stars mentioned in Blake Lively's lawsuit against Justin Baldoni including Taylor Swift and Ben Affleck Hugh Jackman's kids feel 'guilty' for welcoming Sutton Foster into their lives - as daughter's name for him is revealed Blake Lively claims she had to cancel Saturday Night Live hosting gig due to backlash in Justin Baldoni lawsuit Celebrity Big Brother star Dapper Laughs reveals how much a family day out at Winter Wonderland REALLY costs EXCLUSIVE Is Stephen Bartlett all that he claims to be?
His 'billion-pound' company that never was...
and the 'parents who had no money' Bruce Willis shares sweet hug with daughter Scout in rare family video amid dementia battle What HAS happened to Blake Lively's face?
Top cosmetic doctor's verdict on stars surgical transformation - amid 'toxic' Hollywood sex harassment lawsuit Blake Lively's brother-in-law says Justin Baldoni's PR team 'gross and disgusting but highly effective' A look back at Prince Harry's most hilarious moments - from THAT Meghan Markle birthday video to bizarre television appearance
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Wordle has a hidden 'hard mode' - but players claim it might actually make the game EASIERWhile an estimated 300,000 people play Wordle daily, many are unaware of a secret 'hard mode', which can be found within the game's settings.
Apple could start selling iPhones and iPads as part of a SUBSCRIPTION service from 2023, report claimsA new report from Bloomberg claims that Apple is working on selling iPhones and iPads as part of a hardware subscription service.
93 comments YouTube adds thousands of FREE TV shows and movies to its service including The Sandlot, Legally blonde and There Will Be Blood as company moves to compete with streaming giantsThis is the latest move from the Google-owned social video giant, as it tries to compete in an increasingly crowded, and competitive market.
68 comments Project Skyway: World's largest network of 'drone superhighways' could be built in ENGLAND - connecting the Midlands with the Southeast over 165 milesIf approved, Project Skyway will connect the airspace above cities including Reading, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Coventry, and Rugby.
About time!
Instagram FINALLY brings back the chronological feed - six years after it was ditched in favour of a curated feedInstagram is launching two new ways for users to catch up with their feed - Following and Favourites - which will show posts in chronological order.
Smart BRA with built-in ultrasound technology can detect early signs of breast cancerThe smart bra features small ultrasound sensors in the lining, and was developed by Nextwear Technology, a wearables firm based in Abuja, Nigeria.
Smartwatches are less effective at tracking the health of people with dark skin, study findsThe research by University of Alberta is the first to pool figures from multiple studies to specifically examine how skin tone may affect the accuracy of heart data in wearables 40 comments World's THINNEST mechanical watch is unveiled: Bulgari's Octo Finissimo Ultra is thinner than a 10p coin - and has an eye-watering £332,700 price tagRome-based Bulgari spent three years developing the watch, which is crafted from sandblasted titanium as measures just 0.07 inches (1.8mm) thick.
Smart ring that constantly measures your temperature could provide an early warning of Covid-19 infection - even if your symptoms are subtleExperts from the University of California and MIT Lincoln Lab studied data on 50 people who owned sensor rings and had had Covid-19 before the study.
196 comments Suzuki could launch a FLYING CAR by 2025 after joining forces with Japanese startup SkyDriveSuzuki has announced that it's joining forces with Tokyo-based flying car firm SkyDrive to develop an electric, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
You could soon feel PAIN in the metaverse: Creepy armband uses electrical stimulation to mimic uncomfortable sensations such as a bird pecking at your skinH2L, a Sony-backed company based in Tokyo, has developed an armband that uses electrical stimulation to deliver physical pain.
Engineers develop a bizarre 'magnetic tentacle robot' that can move around the narrow tubes of the lungs to take tissue samplesLike something from a horror film, the new robot's 'magnetic tentacle' would slowly creep into the mouth of a patient under under general anesthesia, University of Leeds scientists show.
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