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The Puzzle Palace : A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency by V. James Bamford is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 (www.hmhco.com)
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9780395312865
Category
history
Subjects
Political Science, Military, Anthropology
Rating
3.88 / 5 (42 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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