The secret sentry : the untold history of the National Security Agency /: the untold history of the National Security Agency. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Secret sentry, the untold history of the NSA; Untold history of the National Security Agency
• Further Information: Note: Matthew M. Aid.
• Other Names: Aid, Matthew M, 1958-
• Contents: Roller-coaster ride : the travails of American communications intelligence : 1945-1950 -- The storm breaks : SIGINT and the Korean War : 1950-1951 -- Fight for survival : the creation of the National Security Agency -- The inventory of ignorance : SIGINT during the Eisenhower administration : 1953-1961 -- The crisis years : SIGINT and the Kennedy administration : 1961-1963 -- Errors of fact and judgment : SIGINT and the Gulf of Tonkin Incidents -- The wilderness of pain : NSA and the Vietnam War : 1964-1969 -- Riding the whirlwind : NSA during the Johnson administration : 1963-1969 -- Tragedy and triumph : NSA during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations -- Dancing on the edge of a volcano : NSA during the Reagan and Bush administrations -- Troubles in paradise : from Desert Storm to the War on Terror -- Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory : 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan -- A mountain out of a molehill : NSA and the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction scandal -- The dark victory : NSA and the invasion of Iraq : March-April 2003 -- The good, the bad, and the ugly : SIGINT and combating the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan -- Crisis in the ranks : the current status of the National Security Agency.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 423 pages, [16] pages of plates), illustrations
• Subjects: 327.1273; Politics & government; Electronic surveillance; Intelligence service; History -- United States -- 20th Century; Political Science -- Government -- General; History -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Regional & national history; Intelligence service -- United States; Electronic surveillance -- United States; United States -- History -- 1945-; United States; Electronic books; History; History; National Security Agency
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781608191796; 1608191796
• Related ISBNs: 9781596915152; 1596915153
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-408) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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