Purchase
The Untold History of the National Security Agency
Bloomsbury Press
June 2009
On Sale: June 9, 2009
432 pages
ISBN: 1596915153
EAN: 9781596915152
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction
In the first complete history of the National Security
Agency, America’s most powerful and secretive intelligence
organization. In February 2006, while researching this book, Matthew Aid
uncovered a massive and secret document reclassification
program—a revelation that made the front page of the New
York Times. This was only one of the discoveries Aid has
made during two decades of research in formerly top-secret
documents. In The Secret Sentry, Aid provides the first-ever
full history of America’s largest security apparatus, the
National Security Agency. This comprehensive account traces the growth of the agency
from 1945 to the present through critical moments in its
history, from the cold war up to its ongoing involvement in
Afghanistan and Iraq. Aid explores the agency’s involvement
in the Iraqi weapons intelligence disaster, where evidence
that NSA officials called “ambiguous” was used as proof of
Iraqi WMD capacity, and details the intense debate within
the NSA over its unprecedented role, pressed by the
Bush-Cheney administration, in spying on U.S. citizens. Today, the NSA has become the most important source of
intelligence for the U.S. government, providing 60 percent
of the president’s daily intelligence briefing. While James
Bamford’s New York Times bestseller The Shadow Factory
covered the NSA since 9/11, The Secret Sentry contains new
information about every period since World War II . It
provides a shadow history of global affairs, from the
creation of I srael to the War on Terror.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2025 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy