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

Author: James Bamford

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 20 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/18/2018

Synopsis

In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, James Bamford exposes the inner workings of America's largest, most secretive, and arguably 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. So sensitive was the information uncovered that the agency twice attempted to suppress the book, threatened the author with prosecution, and even raided one of the libraries he used. This is a brilliant account of the use and abuse of technological espionage.

About James Bamford

James Bamford, the author of the bestsellers Body of Secrets and The Puzzle Palace, has written extensively on national security issues, including investigative cover stories for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. Formerly the Washington investigative producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and a distinguished visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, he lives in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John

In the beginning, the NSA did not exist: though President Eisenhower created it in 1952, its very existence, not to mention what it did, was kept secret. Now, secrecy isn't necessarily a bad thing, but on the face of it you have to suspect something is amiss in such cases. As my parents would've sai......more

Goodreads review by Mike

The puzzle palace is getting a little old, but it still applies. The NSA is one of those government agencies that everybody knows about, except if you ask them what they know they scratch their head and say "not much." Much of the computer things we take for granted today from encryption to managing......more

Goodreads review by Omar

Truly mind-boggling. I was blown away when I learned how much the NSA has done over the last few decades...really a page turner. Plus I grew up near there and never quite knew what it was. This is as thrilling as a spy novel with the added shock factor of being true.......more

Goodreads review by Charles

Recent revelations regarding massive data mining of phone and Internet activity (hello Uncle) reminded me of this read. Published in 1988 and read by me in perhaps early 2000's, the book lay out NSA's Hugh accumulation of computing power. Before even Bush era legal authorization this data was being......more

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