Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (894 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804170975 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of six books of military and intelligence history, including Blackett’s War, a Washington Post Notable Book. STEPHEN BUDIANSKY was the national security correspondent and foreign editor of U.S. He has served as a Congressional Fellow, he frequently lectures on intelligence and military history, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wash
Secrets! It is a curse that nations need secrets to achieve their national goals. Secrets! It is a curse that nations need secrets to achieve their national goals.This book explores SIGINT (signal intelligence) in the United States from World War II to the NSA in the Vietnam War it is limited to what is current state because that information has not been declassified yet.My mother was a Code Breaker at Arlington Hall during World War II largely because she spoke Slavic languages fluently. It became an obsession with her: she could never let it go after World War II and it greatly influenced my and my siblings childhood. If you know the story of Thimas Nash, you know the story of my m. Well worth reading for those interested in the details of decryption and comm traffic analysis. Excellent coverage of analytic techniques in 20th century through the 1950's. Due to security restrictions increasingly sparse afterwards. The book is one of the few that acknowledges the contributions of the tens of thousands of enlisted military linguists and analysts that kept close track of Warsaw pact and asian orders of battle during the cold war. Mostly missing of course is western history on encryption methods of the US and it's allies.. Spy Listener W. J. Magee This is an excellent and detailed chronology of communications intelligence gathering from ww2 to current times. However, like many subject focused books it helps if you have a keen interest in the subject. I worked in this area from late 50s to early 60s, so from my perspective it was fascinating and filled a lot of voids.
The NSA became a vast and powerful intelligence agency in the digital age. This book illuminates the early years.” —Washington Post “An excitingaccount of the National Security Agency’s efforts to discover the Soviet Union’s secrets.” —Wall Street Journal “The dysfunctions and overreach of the total surveillance state were present at its birth, according to this engrossing history of the National Security Administration. Journalist Budiansky traces the development of American signals intelligence and is lucid in describing the science and art of breaking complex ciphers, which helped drive
Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, NSA played a vital, often fraught and controversial role in the major events of the Cold War, from the Korean War to the Cuban Missile Crisis to Vietnam and beyond. Budiansky shows how NSA’s obsession with recording every bit of data and decoding every signal is far from a new development; throughout its history the depth and breadth of the agency’s reach has resulted in both remarkable successes and destructive failures. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy in the Soviet Union, our intelligence community found itself targeting not soldiers on the battlefield, but suspected spies, foreign leaders, and even American citizens. A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous “cult of silence” has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. Along the way, he guides us through the fascinating challenges faced by cryptanalysts, and how they broke some of the most complicated codes of the twentieth century. Featuring a series of appendixes that explain the technical details of Soviet co