The puzzle palace
Subtitle: a report on America's most secret agency
By: James Bamford.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex; New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 655
ISBN-13: 9780140067484
Subjects: United States. National Security Agency
Description: "Inside the National Security Agency, America's most secret intelligence organization"--Cover subtitle.

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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
With a new Afterword by the author (p. 479-532).
Table of contents: title: Birth; title: Prelude; title: Anatomy; title: Penetration; title: Platforms; title: Targets; title: Fissures; title: Partners; title: Competition; title: Abyss; title: Afterword; title: Appendix.; title: NSA career panels and professions; title: Directors of the National Security Agency; title: Deputy Directors of the National Security Agency