Record details

• ISBN: 1596915153
• ISBN: 9781596915152
• Physical Description: viii, 423 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Edition: 1st U.S. edition
• Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-408) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1 Roller-Coaster Ride: The Travails of American Communications Intelligence: 1945-1950 8 -- 2 Storm Breaks: SIGINT and the Korean War: 1950-1951 25 -- 3 Fight for Survival: The Creation of the National Security Agency 41 -- 4 Inventory of Ignorance: SIGINT During the Eisenhower Administration: 1953-1961 45 -- 5 Crisis Years: SIGINT and the Kennedy Administration: 1961-1963 56 -- 6 Errors of Fact and Judgment: SIGINT and the Gulf of Tonkin Incidents 80 -- 7 Wilderness of Pain: NSA and the Vietnam War: 1964-1969 105 -- 8 Riding the Whirlwind: NSA During the Johnson Administration: 1963-1969 128 -- 9 Tragedy and Triumph: NSA During the Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations 148 -- 10 Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano: NSA During the Reagan and Bush Administrations 171 -- 11 Troubles in Paradise: From Desert Storm to the War on Terrorism 191 -- 12 Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: 9/11 and the Invasion of Afghanistan 213 -- 13 A Mountain out of a Molehill: NSA and the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Scandal 229 -- 14 Dark Victory: NSA and the Invasion of Iraq: March-April 2003 246 -- 15 Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: SIGINT and Combating the Insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan 264 -- 16 Crisis in the Ranks: The Current Status of the National Security Agency 286.

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Subject:

United States. National Security Agency > History.
Electronic surveillance > United States.
Intelligence service > United States.
United States > History > 1945-