Body of Secrets

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Body of Secrets

Author	James Bamford
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	National Security Agency
Genre	Non-fiction
Published	2001 (Anchor Books)
ISBN	978-0-385-49907-1
OCLC	44713235
Dewey Decimal	327.1273 21
LC Class	UB256.U6 B36 2001
Preceded by	The Puzzle Palace
Followed by	A Pretext for War

Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency is a book by James Bamford about the NSA and its operations. It also covers the history of espionage in the United States from uses of the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system to retrieve personnel on Arctic Ocean drift stations to Operation Northwoods, a declassified US military plan that Bamford describes as a "secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba."^[1]

For the book, NSA director Michael Hayden gave him unprecedented access. In contrast, his previous book, The Puzzle Palace, was almost blocked from publication by the agency.