THE PUZZLE PALACE
A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency
by James Bamford
The National Security Agency (NSA) is the most secret agency within the US
Government. For many years the government denied that it even existed.
It was established not by law but by a top secret presidential memorandum
that has been seen by only a very few officials. Yet it is many times larger
than the CIA, spends billions of dollars more per year, and its director
is the most powerful official in the American intelligence community.
In the three decades since Truman secretly created the agency in 1952,
the NSA has managed to elude publicity to an extraordinary degree. Now,
in the first book ever written on the National Security Agency, James Bamford
traces its origins, details its inner workings and exposes its far-flung
operations.
He describes the city of fifty thousand people and nearly twenty buildings
that is the Fort Meade headquarters of the NSA - where there are close
to a dozen underground acres of computers, where a significant part of
the world's communications are monitored, and where reports from a number
of sophisticated satellite eavesdropping systems are analyzed. He also
gives a detailed account of NSA's complex network of listening posts -
both in the United States and throughout much of the rest of the world.
The Justice Department tried to suppress the publishing of this book!
Read the truth about the super-secret piggy NSA!
1982, 5 x 8, 655 pp, indexed, soft cover.
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