BODY OF SECRETS: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century
James Bamford, . . Doubleday, $29.95 (736pp) ISBN 978-0-385-49907-1
The National Security Agency (NSA), writes Bamford, has made the United States an "eavesdropping superpower," capable of capturing, deciphering and analyzing "signal intelligence"—communications—in whatever form it may exist and from whatever nation it may be transmitted. Yet with a budget ($4 billion a year) and staff (numbering in the tens of thousands) that dwarf its more famous cousin, the CIA, and with a headquarters, known as "Crypto City," that is its own self-contained community, little is known of NSA among the public and, more troublingly, even within other parts of government. Uncovering the secrets of NSA, its history and operations, has become Bamford's life's work, first begun in his now classic
Reviewed on: 04/23/2001
Genre: Religion
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