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BODY OF SECRETS -- ANATOMY OF THE ULTRA-SECRET NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY |
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ACCLAIM FOR JAMES BAMFORD'S BODY OF SECRETS "James Bamford, who wrote one of the really good books about American intelligence twenty years ago, has now done it again.... Body Secrets has something interesting and important to add to many episodes of cold war history ... [and] has much to say about recent events." -- The New York Review of Books "Body of Secrets is one fascinating book.... Chock-full of juicy stuff.... Interesting to read, well-written and scrupulously documented." -- Salon "An engaging and informed history.... Bamford weaves a narrative about the NSA that includes.... many heretofore undisclosed tidbits of information." -- The Nation "At times surprising, often quite troubling but always fascinating.... Writing with a flair and clarity that rivals those of the best spy novelists, Bamford has created a masterpiece of investigative reporting." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Body if Secrets adds fresh material about the world's nosiest and most secret body.... This revised edition will fascinate anyone interested in the shadow war." -- The Economist JAMES BAMFORD BODY OF SECRETS James Bamford is the author of The Puzzle Palace, an award-winning national bestseller when it was first published and now regarded as a classic. He has taught at the University of California's Goldman School of Public policy, spent nearly a decade as the Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and has written extensively on national security issues, including investigative cover stones for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. He lives in Washington, D.C. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My most sincere thanks to the many people who helped bring Body of Secrets to life. Lieutenant General Michael V. Hayden, NSAs director, had the courage to open the agency's door a crack. Major General John E. Morrison (Retired), the dean of the U.S. intelligence community, was always gracious and accommodating in pointing me in the right directions. Deborah Price suffered through my endless Freedom of Information Act requests with professionalism and good humor. Judith Emmel and Colleen Garrett helped guide me through the labyrinths of Crypto City. Jack Ingram, Dr. David Hatch, Jennifer Wilcox, and Rowena Clough of NSNs National Cryptologic Museum provided endless help in researching the agency's past. Critical was the help of those who fought on the front lines of the cryptologic wars, including George A. Cassidy, Richard G. Schmucker, Marvin Nowicki, John Arnold, Harry O. Rakfeldt, David Parks, John Mastro, Wayne Madsen, Aubrey Brown, John R. DeChene, Bryce Lockwood, Richard McCarthy, Don McClarren, Stuart Russell, Richard E. Kerr, Jr., James Miller, and many others. My grateful appreciation to all those named and unnamed. Thanks also to David J. Haight and Dwight E. Strandberg of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and to Thomas E. Samoluk of the U.S. Assassinations Records Review Board. Finally I would like to thank those who helped give birth to Body of Secrets, including Kris Dahl, my agent at International Creative Management; Shawn Coyne, my editor at Doubleday; and Bill Thomas, Bette Alexander, Jolanta Benal, Lauren Field, Chris Min, Timothy Hsu, and Sean Desmond. *** "In God we trust, all others we monitor." "The public has a duty to watch its Government closely and
keep it on the right track." "The American people have to trust US and in order to trust
us they have to know about us." "Behind closed doors, there is no guarantee that the most
basic of individual freedoms will be preserved. And as we
enter the 21st Century, the great fear we have for our
democracy is the enveloping culture of government secrecy
and the corresponding distrust of government that follows."
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