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In 1947, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand signed a secret treaty in which they agreed to cooperate in matters of signals intelligence. In effect, the governments agreed to pool their geographic and technological assets in order to listen in on the electronic communications of China, the Soviet Union, and other Cold War bad guys--all in the interest of truth, justice, and the American Way, naturally. The thing is, the system apparently catches everything. Government security services, led by the U.S. National Security Agency, screen a large part (and perhaps all) of the voice and data traffic that flows over the global communications network. Fifty years later, the European Union is investigating possible violations of its citizens' privacy rights by the NSA, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public advocacy group, has filed suit against the NSA, alleging that the organization has illegally spied on U.S. citizens. Being a super-secret spy agency and all, it's tough to get a handle on what's really going on at the NSA. However, James Bamford has done great work in documenting the agency's origins and Cold War exploits in The Puzzle Palace. Beginning with the earliest days of cryptography (code-making and code-breaking are large parts of the NSA's mission), Bamford explains how the agency's predecessors helped win World War II by breaking the German Enigma machine and defeating the Japanese Purple cipher. He also documents signals intelligence technology, ranging from the usual collection of spy satellites to a great big antenna in the West Virginia woods that listened to radio signals as they bounced back from the surface of the moon. Bamford backs his serious historical and technical material (this is a carefully researched work of nonfiction) with warnings about how easily the NSA's technology could work against the democracies of the world. Bamford quotes U.S. Senator Frank Church: "If this government ever became a tyranny ... the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government ... is within the reach of the government to know." This is scary stuff. --David Wall
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"There have been glimpses inside the NSA before, but until now no one has published a comprehensive and detailed report on the agency. . . Mr. Bamford has emerged with everything except the combination to the director's safe." —The New York Times Book Review
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Product details
Paperback: 656 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; 1st edition (September 29, 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140067485
ISBN-13: 978-0140067484
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 1.5 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
87 customer reviews
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Not interesting at all . Regreat buying this book . Would not recommend to anyone . Look elsewhere or a more up to date history.
I started out with The Shadow Factory (SHOWY, then Body of Secrets (BOOTS), and now just finished The Puzzle Palace (ZEPLACE). (Just hadda do it--try for those non-acronym, compound-non-acronym, acronym-looking abbreviates the military is so fond of using, which we're awash in in Bamford's books. What's ALLO? Why, All Others. We need pronunciation guidelines for these "handles," AND I think Bamford should adopt the style of appending the acronym/abbreviation/handle in parens after the first reference as in: all others (ALLO, pronounced Al Owe, or whatever Aloe?). Awkward sometimes, but a real help to the reader who has to go through one- or two-paragraph thumbnail biographies of the personnel listed in such profusion. (Guy starts in AWS, then 2 years later, SAWSP, then PODUNK, which was changed a month later to HOOPLE, and combined with NAVINT to become NOPE... (I'm making these up; if one could more easily keep them straight, it would be helpful. Of course probably part of the reason for all of these non-clear handles is to keep everyone guessing. But, hopefully, not the National Security Agency folks.On the other hand, one particularly nifty line Bamford zaps us with is something like: By the end of 19NN, the NSA was at once the most secretive and the most penetrated of our US spy agencies. Whooaaa, mama!! Sounds like a lethal combo, no?ZEPLACE was 1983, BOOTS, 2001. Bamford lived in Natick, Mass when ZEPLACE was published; Washington, DC when BOOTS was published. I don't have SHOWY--but the paperback copyright page on Amazon says © 2008. I didn't look for the author's blurb, but the dedication changes between ZEPLACE and BOOTS suggest a change in family status as well as residence. I'd put a couple of search terms into the NSA's disk-farm database (was it Total Information Awareness? Thanks In Advance for leaving us Poindexter? At least a British tube-writer made use of TIA in The Last Enemy (which is you, of course. Or me. Or folks who quote from the US Constitution too much, or emails, texts, twitters, searches, too frequently about "rights" or "We the People" + "freedom of speech" + Fourth Ame* OR + 4th." You get the pitcher. I'll mix the Flavor-Ade©.(Does anyone remember a flyer put out by I think the FBI back in October or so of 2001, from the Arizona, or an Arizona field office that suggested reporting, as "suspicious persons" who could be "preventably detained", folks who did quote the US Constitution, or mention "rights" or "civil rights"? Is that kind of stupidity just built in to human beings in government organizations? Or is it a particularly American habit--try to label all your critics as "terrorists," as "traitors," as "unpatriotic," as "Socialists," or "Atheists"--oops, meant "Godless Death Tax Payers".And why in the name of all the First-Mover tree-bark that exists do we ordinary folks LISTEN to that stuff? (That 1st mover & tree-bark ref. is to good ol' New England Transcendentalism (which I may have miss-described w/ that bit. No offense intended.)Having read Body of Secrets (BOOTS) before Puzzle Palace (ZEPLACE), I had a sense of déjà vu (all over again) that hit hardest on the pages about the Israeli Defense Forces (like our own Defense Department, it seems the IDF has always been miss-named; should be the Israeli War Forces (our own DoD started out as the War Department, a much more honest designation than the current one, but people just don't get how important words are in the government game (raison d'être, may be a better phrase--reason for being) of propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, lying, etc.) deliberate attack on the NSA ship, USS Liberty, a "ferret" ship, or COMINT ship, or a ship with lots and lots of antennae, to receive and transmit (one to bounce signals off the moon--that I think that was so cool--imagine dealing with the roll, pitch and yaw of an ocean-located ship-in-perpetual-motion, the craggy surface of the moon, swathed in moon-dust--and getting ANY intelligible "intel" (broadcast signals) from sea to moon to earth--or even to another floating eavesdropping ship--so many variables there that I doubt that ship2moon2ship hop was tried.So I went back & forth between ZEPLACE and BOOTS. There indeed was the same tale, sometimes in exactly the same words. (Bamford copyrighted his own works, so he can repurpose them all he wants, and to a fare-thee-well, should he so chose).But I would recommend just starting with BOOTS, and skip ZEPLACE. The USS Liberty story is much augmented in BOOTS, and it hardly matters, in my view, just what all the alphabet soup in ZEPLACE, particularly, the British and US spy outfits had to wade through to get to where they are now.On the other hand, if you can get through all of the alphabet soup (most of which added little or nothing to my understanding of what the nation's biggest and most richly-'appropriationed' spy outfit does and its impact on our lives today. SHOWY gives the up-to-date and scariest stuff--particularly as to the claim Bamford makes (unless I misread him) that virtually every one of the main fiber optic trunk lines of our US telecom companies has been saddled with a "splitter box" to duplicate every bit, every binary digit, of telecom traffic that goes through those fibers. Since early in 2002. And that it's all whirring about on a 'monongahelous' disk farm down in Texas somewhere.All that "Intel," ripe from the field-intercept, ready to be harvested by keyword, search-word, "watch-listed" words (like names of people, places & things. As I get it, a so-called "watch list" is nothing more than what you or I type into Google to find stuff, with no doubt lots of bells & whistles from every library system ever conceived and/or built (2 chars within five spaces of..., 3 alpha plus 14 numeric plus 12 alpha strings, all of George Boole's logic operators, and so on.I may have missed this in BOOTS, but Bamford's narration in ZEPLACE of what the NRO, National Reconnaissance Orifice, actually can do with their satellite farms, does with them--like notice when a single airplane has veered off course in our own airspace--made me sit up and exclaim: "Aha!! so THAT's why they had to have a mock 'plane-flying-into-the-NRO-headquarters-on-9/11/2001' fire drill/exercise--to get them all out of the buildings so they couldn't see all those four airplanes go off-course. So much to learn, so little time.As to who "they" are (in the "they had to" line above), I hazard no guesses. All I want for Christmas is my two-front-toothsome investigations:1) The REAL 9/11/2001-What Happened facts, and2) 18 USCode §2441, the US War Crimes Act (to investigate and bring charges in the cases of the 170 or so deaths of prisoners-of-war in US control, probably while undergoing torture under the direction, by daily videoconferences, of our very own National Security Committee, the POTUS, the POTEET ("petite president," or Dark Cheney, Rice, Addington, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Powell?, Libby--dunno of Dick Perle was in on the fun 'n' games), Liz Cheney?, Feith, who-all else? Anyone gotta better list?
I think I would have to classify this book as more sensationalism than any sort of investigative documentation. Sure, the people and history of the NSA make for interesting reading, but my question is, if this is all so "secret," "never been revealed," and "super hush-hush," then how is it that James Bamford managed to get his hands on the information?I'm afraid I can not prove it, but this seems to me to be more fluff than fact, and I think I may have been better off with something else for a textbook. Unfortunately for me, this is required reading. I think I'll be selling this one back at the end of the semester.
Bamford's books would be okay if he weren't such an ardent anti-Israel diehard. Throughout all his books he really seems to have it in for the Israelis, to the point of implying that they are our enemies rather than our closest allies. The history since this book has been written proves him obviously wrong. It is, despite this flaw, a wonderful and entertaining and informative read, but his personal bias is simply ugly. He goes half mad discussing the Liberty incident, the usual "tinfoil hat" moment for anti-Semites.
"The Puzzle Palace" came highly recommended by other amazon readers. A glance at the inside covers reveals 25 reprintings and a solid bio for the author. I found "PP" to be a virtual whirlwind of facts, names, dates, comings and goings, changes of command, anecdotes and many military/governmental acronyms. (There is even a 6-page glossary of these!). Mr. Bamford's work is well researched and well documented. In the acknowledgements, he admits to filing a "torrent" of Freedom of Information Act requests. I can well imagine! He supports his effort with 80 pages of notes, so what is written here must be authentic. That is the good news. The bad news is that for this reader, "The Puzzle Palace" simply did not work. Perhaps I missed the story somewhere in the plethora of facts. Perhaps the facts themselves were intended to be the story. This reader had hoped for some juice, some "inside information". Apart from the horrendous 1967 Israeli attack on the USS LIBERTY, and some Cold War incidents, there were precious few. I believe "PP" will appeal to those well versed in the Beltway Scene, since they can "connect the dots" better than I. Those already possessing a knowledge of the intelligence game should also enjoy. A 5 star rating is appropriate for these 2 groups. For the rest of us, some rating stars must be subtracted. If we gave "A"s for effort alone, Mr. Bamford would deserve one. For results, a Gentleman's "C" is more appropriate
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