Spy watch: Behind closed doors at the national security agency. (Culture & Reviews).(Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century)

From: Reason | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century, by James Bamford, New York: Doubleday, 721 pages, $29.95

OSAMA BIN LADEN is a dutiful stepson. This mundane bit of information took on particular importance following the September II attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As James Bamford reminds us in Body of Secrets, his latest book on the shadowy National Security Agency (NSA), officials at the organization would routinely play intercepted telephone conversations between bin Laden and ...

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