14 Jun, Fri, 10:56:08 laksatxpr2e.lackland.af.mil MSIE 6 Windows 2000
Interesting google search from Lackland AFB in San Antonio. Someone at Lackland was searching for info using the search terms ” “CREOLE” medina rsoc” By the way, I used to live right down the street from Lackland. Nice PX, and it’s not that far from Medina.
The RSOC refers to the Regional Security Operating Centre which is in Medina, TX. I’m guessing “CREOLE” could refer to some operation codename? I say this only because it was typed in all caps and surrounded by quotes. This is not normal for most search terms.
The RSOC was also involved in the attempted Chavez coup:
The National Security Agency (NSA) supported the coup using personnel attached to the US Southern Command’s Joint Interagency Task Force East (JIATF-E) in Key West, Florida. NSA’s Spanish-language linguists and signals interception operators in Key West; Sabana Seca on Puerto Rico and the Regional Security Operating Centre (RSOC) in Medina, Texas also assisted in providing communications intelligence to US military and national command authorities on the progress of the coup d’etat.
I did my own googling and found some interesting information via Cryptome. It turns out that the facility in Medina is actually a high-security offshoot of Lackland AFB so this makes sense. They get up to some serious spook business:
Close to San Antonio is the Medina Annex of Lackland Air Force Base. Here, Air Force staff of the Consolidated Security Operations Center process communications from around the world. Like the real Area 51, Medina is one of the US government’s highest security facilities. San Antonio is home to the Electronic Security Command, the US Air Force section of the intelligence agency NSA. It also now hosts an Information Warfare Centre.
As hosting an Information Warfare Centre it would make sense that they were involved in the blackbag stuff that went on in Venezuela.