The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization

By: James Bamford

Published September 29th 1983 by Penguin Books (first published September 23rd 1982)

Category: Business

Pages: 656 pages

ISBN: 9780140067484

Description:
In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, James Bamford exposes the inner workings of America's largest, most secretive, andÊarguably most intrusive intelligence agency. The NSA has long eluded public scrutiny, but The Puzzle Palace penetrates its vast network of power and unmasks the people who control it, often with shocking disregard for the law.ÊWithÊdetailedÊinformation on the NSA's secret role in the Korean Airlines disaster, Iran-Contra, the first Gulf War, and other major world events of the 80s and 90s, this is a brilliant accountÊof the use and abuse of technological espionage.