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The secret sentry

the untold history of the National Security Agency

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An edition of The secret sentry (2009)

The secret sentry

the untold history of the National Security Agency

Pbk. ed.
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Presents a history of the agency, from its inception in 1945, to its role in the Cold War, to its controversial advisory position at the time of the Bush administration's search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, shortly before the invasion of 2003.

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Bloomsbury Press
Language
English
Pages
426

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2010, Bloomsbury Press
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2009, Bloomsbury Press
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Table of Contents

Roller-coaster ride : the travails of American communications intelligence : 1945-1950
The storm breaks : SIGINT and the Korean War : 1950-1951
Fight for survival : the creation of the National Security Agency
The inventory of ignorance : SIGINT during the Eisenhower administration : 1953-1961
The crisis years : SIGINT and the Kennedy administration : 1961-1963
Errors of fact and judgment : SIGINT and the Gulf of Tonkin Incidents
The wilderness of pain : NSA and the Vietnam War : 1964-1969
Riding the whirlwind : NSA during the Johnson administration : 1963-1969
Tragedy and triumph : NSA during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations
Dancing on the edge of a volcano : NSA during the Reagan and Bush administrations
Troubles in paradise : from Desert Storm to the War on Terror
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory : 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan
A mountain out of a molehill : NSA and the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction scandal
The dark victory : NSA and the invasion of Iraq : March-April 2003
The good, the bad, and the ugly : SIGINT and combating the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan
Crisis in the ranks : the current status of the National Security Agency.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York
Other Titles
Secret sentry, the untold history of the NSA, Untold history of the National Security Agency

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
327.1273
Library of Congress
UB256.U6 A53 2010, UB256.U6A53 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
426

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL39475218M
Internet Archive
secretsentryunto0000aidm
ISBN 10
160819096X
ISBN 13
9781608190966
OCLC/WorldCat
462908205

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