The Puzzle Palace

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The book the NSA tried to suppress -- with a startling new afterword on the Geoffrey Arthur Prime spy case. The National Security Agency is the largest, most secretive, and potentially most intrusive American intelligence agency. It dwarfs the CIA in budget, manpower, and influence. In the three decades it has existed, the NSA has demonstrated a shocking disregard for the law. Until now, the inner workings of this agency have eluded public scrutiny. In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, however, James Bamford penetrates the NSA's vast network of power -- the acres of computers, the electronic listening posts worldwide, the intelligence-gathering satellites, and the people who control them. The Puzzle Palace is a brilliant account of the use and abuse of technological espionage and of the frightening Orwellian potential of today's intelligence communites. - Back cover.

subjects: Great Britain,  Great Britain. Government Communications Headquarters,  United States,  United States. National Security Agency,  USA,  National Security Agency,  États-Unis,  États-Unis. National Security Agency,  United states, national security agency/central security service,  Universities and colleges,  Services de renseignements

People: Lew Allen Jr.,  William O. Baker,  Roy R. Banner,  Bruce Barns,  Donald V. Bennett,  Alexander M. Bickel,  Gordon A. Blake,  Christopher John Boyce,  Pat Buchanan,  Benson K. Buffham,  McGeorge Bundy,  Ralph Canine,  Ann Z. Carracristi,  Newcomb Carlton,  Jimmy Carter,  Marshall S. Carter,  William J. Casey,  Frank Church,  Marlborough Churchill,  Ronald Clark,  Tom C. Clark,  Carter W. Clarke,  William Colby,  Charles Colson,  John J. Connelly Jr.,  W. Preston Corderman,  Cecil C. Corry,  Joe Craig,  George I. Davida,  John W. Dean,  Lee C. Deighton,  Richard D. DeLauer,  Alastair C. Denniston,  Thomas Dewey,  Whitfield Diffie,  Nugent Dodds,  Bernardine Dohrn,  Robert E. Drake,  John Foster Dulles,  Jack E. Dunlap,  John Ehrlichmann,  Kenneth Ellis,  Daniel Ellsberg,  Howard T. Engstrom,  Lincoln D. Faurer,  James V. Forrestal,  William F. Friedman,  Laurence H. Frost,  Eugene C. Fubini,  Noel Gayler,  Raymond J. Gengler,  Thomas S. Greenish,  Murray Gurfein,  Ralph B. Guy,  Boris C. W. Hagelin,  Elizabeth R. Haig,  H. R. Haldeman,  Wayne L. Hays,  Martin E. Hellman,  Richard Helms,  Robert J. Hermann,  Seymour Hirsh,  Leonard J. Hooper,  J. Edgar Hoover,  Tom Huston,  John E. Ingersoll,  Bobby Ray Inman,  Don C. Jackson,  Hiram W. Johnson,  Louis A. Johnson,  Lyndon B. Johnson,  David Kahn,  Franklin E. Kameny,  Tomosaburo Kato,  Damon J. Keith,  Clarence M. Kelley,  Frank B. Kellogg,  Edward M. Kennedy,  John F. Kennedy,  Robert F. Kennedy,  Richard N. Kern,  Philip H. Kerr,  James R. Killian Jr.,  Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968),  Oliver R. Kirby,  Maurice H. Klein,  Marie Stuart Klooz,  Mikhail N. Kostiouk,  Alexei Kosygin,  Alvin D. Kramer,  Solomon Kullback,  John J. Larkin,  Alex Lawrie,  Andrew Daulton Lee,  Richard A. Leibler,  Arthur J. Levenson,  G. Gordon Liddy,  Clive Loehnis,  S. Eugene Long,  Robert A. Lovett,  John A. McCone,  Alfred McCormack,  John W. McCormack,  David L. McDonald,  Neil J. McElroy,  George L. McFadden,  William L. McGonagle,  Robert S. McNamara,  Victor Marchetti,  Robert C. Mardian,  John O. Marsh Jr.,  George C. Marshall,  William H. Martin,  Mitford M. Matthews,  Joseph O. Mauborgne,  Mikhail A. Menshikov,  Carl Meyer,  Joseph A. Meyer,  Bernon F. Mitchell,  John Mitchell,  Walter F. Mondale,  Juanita M. Moody,  John E. Morrison,  Robert Murphy,  Lee P. Leuwirth,  Carl Nicolai,  Richard M. Nixon,  John O'Gara,  Lauren Paine,  John R. Pasta,  Henry Petersen,  Joseph S. Petersen Jr.,  Samuel C. Phillips,  Geoffrey Arthur Prime,  Francis A. Raven,  James Earl Ray,  Ronald W. Reagan,  Joseph H. Ream,  Bebe Rebozo,  S. Wesley Reynolds,  Nelson A. Rockefeller,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  Frank B. Rowlett,  Laurence F. Safford,  Harrison E. Salisbury,  John A. Samford,  Naotake Sato,  James R. Schlesinger,  Lester R. Schulz,  Daniel C. Schwartz,  Richard Schweiker,  Whitney N. Seymour Jr.,  Charles E. Shannon,  Deborah Shapley,  Robert L. F. Sikes,  Daniel B. Silver,  Abraham Sinkov,  Richard L. Stallings,  Henry L. Stimson,  Earl E. Stone,  William C. Sullivan,  Raymond T. Tate,  John H. Tiltman,  Henry Tizard,  Clyde Tolson,  Joseph J. Tomba,  Louis W. Tordella,  Brian J. M. Tovey,  Edward Travis,  Harry S Truman,  Walter Tuchman,  Alan Turing,  Harold Tyler,  Karl Von Rundstedt,  Willis H. Ware,  James Warren,  David L. Watters,  Fred W. Weingarten,  Joseph N. Wenger,  J. C. Willever,  Woodrow Wilson,  David Wise,  William P. Yarborough,  Herbert O. Yardley,  Milton S. Zaslow,  Arthur Zimmerman

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