Hager, Nicky. Secret Power: New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network. Nelson, New Zealand: Craig Potton Publishing, 1996. Hager, Nicky. Secret Power: New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network. Nelson, New Zealand: Craig Potton Publishing, 1996.
Kruh, Cryptologia 21.1, says that Secret Power is "an excellent book with much new information about signals intelligence, intelligence agency operations and [the] UKUSA" agreement.
According to McGehee, CIABASE Update Report, Aug. 1997, New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) uses electronics to spy on countries throughout the Pacific, including friends and trading partners. Hager shows how New Zealand's spies, geared to serve an alliance with the United States, proved useless in preventing domestic terrorism and providing accurate intelligence.
Herman, I&NS 12.4, finds this work to be "one of [the] more informative and thought-provoking examples" of investigative journalism undertaken with the aim of condemning intelligence. The author presents "a detailed study" of New Zealand's Sigint organization and its collaboration within the UKUSA Sigint alliance. Along the way, Hager presents "an elaborate, almost excessive account of the minutiae of organization." It would, however, "be unwise to take his details [on the Allied exchanges and collaboration] as gospel." In additions, readers "should be on the watch for an undeclared conspiracy theory about US motives and influence."
Hayden, Michael V. [LTGEN/USAF, DIRNSA] "Background on NSA: History, Oversight. Relevance for Today." Defense Intelligence Journal 9, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 13-26.
"[S]lightly reformatted and edited version" of the DIRNSA's presentation at American University on 17 February 2000 and his testimony before the HPSCI on 12 April 2000.
Ingram, Jack E. [Curator, National Cryptologic Museum] "The Origins of NSA." American Intelligence Journal 15, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1994): 39-42.
Minimal on early history; increases after 1947, but remains a quick orientation or overview.
Isaacson, Walter. Kissinger: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
According to Surveillant 2.6, this biography devotes "almost two chapters to a surprising account of extensive wiretaps and eavesdropping, within the US and abroad, by NSA and others."
Levy, Steven. Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age. New York Viking, 2001.
Powers, NYRB, 21 Jun. 2001, and Intelligence Wars (2004), 243-255, finds that this work recounts "in lively detail" NSA's "clandestine campaign" against public encryption. "How these [public key] systems actually work is complicated but not dauntingly so," and Powers "urge[s] interested readers to consult Levy's book."
Powers, Thomas. "Notes from Underground." New York Review of Books, 21 Jun. 2001. Chapter 17 in Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda, 257-273. Rev. & exp. ed. New York: New York Review of Books, 2004.
Primarily a review of Bamford's Body of Secrets (2001), this article also mentions Levy's Crypto (2001), which deals with the battle over public encryption.
National Cryptologic School. On Watch: Profiles from the National Security Agency's Past 40 Years. Ft. George G. Meade, MD: 1986.
Shane, Scott, and Tom Bowman. "No Such Agency." Baltimore Sun, reprint of six-part series, 3-15 December 1995, 1-16.
Clark comment: The Baltimore Sun's series is the first extensive public discussion of NSA since the publication of Bamford's The Puzzle Palace. The series lacks the weight of a well-defined research base, but it is generally accurate. However, its journalistic conception is clearly shown in the subject areas the writers have chosen to address. They probably believe that they asked the "hard questions"; I am not so sure of that. Nonetheless, this is the best easily available look inside the gates at Ft. Meade.
Part 1: "America's Fortress of Spies," 1-3; Part 2: "A Strange and Secret Workplace," 4-6; Part 3: "Espionage from the Front Lines," 7-8; Part 4: "Rigging the Game," 9-11; Part 5: "Catching Americans in NSA's Net," 12-13; Part 6: "Battling High-Tech Warriors," 14-16.
Surveillant 4.3 says that "[t]his series reprint is highly recommended." For Kruh, Cryptologia 20.2, the articles are "a fascinating report sprinkled with new or little known information" about NSA.
Tully, Andrew. The Super Spies: The Inside Story of NSA -- America's Biggest, Most Secret, Most Powerful Spy Agency. New York: Morrow, 1969. New York: Pocket Books, 1970. [pb]
This was not that well done at the time it was published. The existence of Bamford's The Puzzle Palace makes it little more than a curiosity item today.
Williams, Jeannette, with Yolande Dickerson. The Invisible Cryptologists: African-Americans, WWII to 1956. Ft. George G. Meade, MD: National Security Agency, Center for Cryptologic History, 2001. [http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00035.cfm]
The author's "exhaustive search of the cryptologic archives ... recovered the basic story of the segregated cryptologic organizations -- including the previously unknown existence of a large office of African-Americans in World War II."
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