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The first book ever written on the National Security Agency from the New York Times bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Shadow Factory . In this groundbreaking, award-winning book, James Bamford traces the NSA's origins, details its inner workings, and explores 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 super-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. When a Soviet general picks up his car telephone to call headquarters, when a New York businessman wires his branch in London, when a Chinese trade official makes an overseas call, when the British Admiralty urgently wants to know the plans and movements of Argentina's fleet in the South Atlantic—all of these messages become NSA targets. James Bamford's illuminating book reveals how NSA'

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Author

V. James Bamford

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781328566898

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Military

Rating

3.88 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13