The Puzzle Palace

A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency

James Bamford

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Jahr: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781328566898
• Thema: Politics & International Relations
• Thema: Intelligence & Espionage

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's mission of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) has made the human espionage agent almost a romantic figure of the past. Winner Best Investigative Book of the Year Award from Investigative Reporters & Editors " The Puzzle Palace has the feel of an artifact, the darkly revealing kind. Though published during the Reagan years, the book is coolly subversive and powerfully prescient."— The New Yorker "Mr. Bamford has emerged with everything except the combination to the director's safe."— The New York Times Book Review

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Abner computer, 99–100

Abrams, Creighton W., 186

Abzug, Bella, 302–5

Abzug Subcommittee. See Government Information Subcommittee

academic community: relations with NSA, 338–44, 347–50, 357–60; assists intelligence community through IDA-CRD, 341–44; debate within, over Lucifer, 347–49; cryptologic research of, 349–50, 352–54, 359; Inman calls for dialogue between NSA and, 359–60; provides defenses to technotyranny, 379

Acheson, Dean G., 52, 55

Ackerman, John B., 86

acquisition of intelligence, defined, 372–74

Act for the Preservation of Government Records (Public Law 37), 25–26

Ad Hoc Requirements Committee (ARC), 187

Adleman, Leonard, 350, 361–62

Administration, Office of, 104–9

Admiralty, British, 330

Advanced Language Program (ALP), 344

Advanced Soviet (ADVA; operational division of PROD), 90

Aerojet Electrosystems, 193

Aetna Insurance Company, 376–77n

Africa 212, 214, 320

airborne radio direction-finding platforms (ARDF), 185–86

air defense radar, Soviet, 180

Air Force: COMINT activities of, 45, 47, 51; and the EC-130 incident, 180–81; forms NRO with CIA, 187–88, 204; German intercept stations of, 161; launches Samos satellites, 188; participates in AFSA, 47, 48, 50, 51; represented on intelligence boards, 47–51, 187–88, 204; supports the Nicolai secrecy order, 355

Air Force Electronic Security Command (AFESC), 157

Air Force Intelligence (A-2), 49–51

Albert, A. Adrian, 342

Albright, O. S., 18

Aldridge, Edward C., 192

Alexander, C. H. O’D., 130

Alice Springs, 204–6

All-American Cable Company, 12

Allen, Lew, Jr., 192–93, 250 n, 293, 353; becomes director of NSA, 79–80, 291; briefed on NSA’s procurement policy, 110–12; and Operation Shamrock, 236, 303; testifies before Pike Committee, 297–98; and Senate Intelligence Committee hearings, 299–302; and the Government Information Subcommittee hearing, 303–5

All Others (ALLO; operational division of PROD), 90, 153–54, 320

Alvarez, Luis, 340 n

“A” machine (later Red), 34

America, 224–25

American Banking Association, 349 The American Black Chamber (Yardley), 1722, 282

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 212

American code, 281–82, 284–85

American Council on Education, 359

American embassy, Tehran, 200

American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), 174, 303, 377

American Thermogen Corporation, 66

Anagram Inn. See National Security Agency

Analog, 356

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Acknowledgments
• Birth
• Prelude
• Anatomy
• Penetration
• Platforms
• Targets
• Fissures
• Partners
• Competition
• Abyss
• Appendix
• Notes
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Index
• About the Author
• Connect with HMH
• Footnotes